Pointer¶
A pointer to another type.
Declaration¶
Syntax¶
Pointer(ttype type)
Arguments¶
Argument |
Description |
|---|---|
|
the type of what the pointer refers to. |
Return values¶
None. A type is not evaluated.
Description¶
A pointer refers to storage owned by something else, or by nothing at all when it is disassociated. It is associated by Associate, tested with PointerAssociated and cleared by Nullify.
A pointer array is a Pointer of an Array whose extents are
nil. Pointer association sets the bounds and the strides at run time, so
that array always has physical type DescriptorArray (AssumedRankArray when
its rank is assumed); the verifier reports any other as
asr.verify.pointer.array_descriptor.
Examples¶
(Pointer
:type (Integer
:kind 4
)
)
It comes from this complete ASR text document:
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