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Why isn a BOOLEAN parameter a LOGICAL in Fortran?

April 26, 2017Boolean FORTRAN parameter

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Why isn a BOOLEAN parameter a LOGICAL in Fortran?

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There is no way we can guarantee the way the Fortran logical type is represented at machine level, and since all Fortran variables need to be mapped internally to C data structures, we use integers to ensure portability.