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08-15-2003, 01:19 AM
At 12:14 PM 1/19/99 -0800, Wen-Li Chiang wrote:
>I am studying a Fortran program listed in a Ph.D. dissertation. That
>program was compiled and ran in an IBM 370/3032 in a famous university
>about twenty years ago. There is a data statement
>
> DATA S/Z3C100000/
>
>in a subroutine. There is not any parameter statement and not any
>variable name starting with Z3C. Can any one please tell me that this
>data statement could possibly pass through any Fortran compiler?
>
>Wen Chiang
[address removed]
>
It's initializing the variable S to the hexadecimal value
3C100000.