B.11 The Compaq Fortran POINTER Statement

The POINTER statement discussed here is different from the one discussed in Section 5.15. It establishes pairs of variables and pointers, in which each pointer contains the address of its paired variable.

This POINTER statement takes the following form:

POINTER (pointer, pointee) [, (pointer, pointee)] . . .

pointer
Is a variable whose value is used as the address of the pointee.


pointee
Is a variable; it can be an array name or array specification.

Rules and Behavior

The following are pointer rules and behavior:

The following are pointee rules and behavior:


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