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[Anonymous]

I'm in the process of converting over some Fortran 77 code, with a minimum of changes. I have a number of arrays that are larger than 3 dimensions, and FTN95 seems to be coughing them up with StackOverflowExceptions. Is there a limit on array dimensions, and if so, what is it?

Sheila Silva

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Do you mean compile time exceptions? If so that is almost certainly a and you should submit it to ftn95@silverfrost.com (preferably with an example that fails)

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[Anonymous]

No, it's a runtime exception - I spent a couple hours yesterday messing with it, and it seems to definitely be a stack size issue (specifically, a lack thereof). We've got a number of multidimensional arrays defined as local variables within a subroutine - they're fairly large, although I wouldn't say exceptional (i.e. subpr1(5,50,20,6), subpr2(5,50,20,6), subpr3(5,50,20,6), subsic(5,1000,5,7)), all real*4. I'm actually OK at the declaration stage, which is probably why it compiles. However, the runtime halts at the do-continue loops that initialize these arrays. If I make one of the arrays smaller (for example, subsic(5,700,5,7) instead of subsic(5,1000,5,7), that array's do-continue loop runs fine, but then the initialization loops for the others fail with stack exceptions anyway.

I've tried splitting the arrays up - no dice. I've tried increasing the stack size to crazy large numbers in the linker - no dice. Here's the architecture, if it helps - I have a VB front end, which calls a VB dll, which calls this Fortran.NET dll. Everything's on the .NET platform. Is there some other place I can increase the stack size, or am I doing something else wrong?

Sheila Silva

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As the code is running as a DLL from VB.net then it is VB.net that determines the stack size (the dll is effectively a slave). Is there any way you can declare the arrays as non stack?

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[Anonymous]

I realized the same thing a couple days ago - and found some posts on some other websites that pointed me to the solution. I declare the arrays as assumed size (essentially non-stack?) in the VB.net front end, and pass them in as parameters. It works great now - thanks for the help.

Sheila Silva

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Excellent :)

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[Anonymous]

I'm almost there - some of the arrays used are character arrays, which the compiler is telling me I can't pass in from VB.NET. How do I get around the stackexception issue for these?

Sheila Silva