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  69. <h3 class="section">7.1 Interoperability with C</h3>
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  84. <p>Since Fortran 2003 (ISO/IEC 1539-1:2004(E)) there is a
  85. standardized way to generate procedure and derived-type
  86. declarations and global variables which are interoperable with C
  87. (ISO/IEC 9899:1999). The <code>bind(C)</code> attribute has been added
  88. to inform the compiler that a symbol shall be interoperable with C;
  89. also, some constraints are added. Note, however, that not
  90. all C features have a Fortran equivalent or vice versa. For instance,
  91. neither C&rsquo;s unsigned integers nor C&rsquo;s functions with variable number
  92. of arguments have an equivalent in Fortran.
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  94. <p>Note that array dimensions are reversely ordered in C and that arrays in
  95. C always start with index 0 while in Fortran they start by default with
  96. 1. Thus, an array declaration <code>A(n,m)</code> in Fortran matches
  97. <code>A[m][n]</code> in C and accessing the element <code>A(i,j)</code> matches
  98. <code>A[j-1][i-1]</code>. The element following <code>A(i,j)</code> (C: <code>A[j-1][i-1]</code>;
  99. assuming <em>i &lt; n</em>) in memory is <code>A(i+1,j)</code> (C: <code>A[j-1][i]</code>).
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