[cffi-devel] CFFI and FORTRAN CHARACTER*(*)

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 16:12:58 +0200, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll said:
> 
> CHARACTERs in Fortran are just pointers of type char*, just like in C, and
> just like any other fortran array. There is no terminating null and the
> fortran functions get the length either from some argument or because they
> assume a given size (for instance in Lapack it is a one-character string
> what the function expects)

Are you sure about?  I think the lengths are passed as implicit arguments at
the end of the argumwnt list.

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