Question

I have a project that is half in C and half in Fortran 77. [No, not Fortran 90 or 03, Fortran 77.] The code would be much cleaner if I could pass pointers generated on the C side back to Fortran, which would then pass them back as necessary for handling in other C functions. As it is, the C code is filled with global variables that shouldn’t be global, and is otherwise on the verge of becoming an unstructured mess. So are there any reasonably reliable ways to pass an opaque pointer between C and Fortran?

Answer 1

You can do this with the (non-standard) Cray pointer extension:

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Cray-pointers.html