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Re: common block question [message #75713 is a reply to message #23576]

Thu, 14 April 2011 07:20

pgrigis
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On Apr 13, 3:15 pm, geoff <oxfordenergyservi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I am writing a program which will call a number of subroutines. I
> have a number of arrays, the largest of which (and will take a
> significant part of the memory) will be used in most (but not all) of
> the subroutines, will be created at the beginning and be retained
> until the end of the program.

I would make this an object with the subroutines as methods.

Ciao,
Paolo

>
> Is it easiest for me to define a common block in the main program with
> this main array and make this block available to the other sub
> routines when necessary? Is there any overhead in making the block
> available to all sub routines?
>
> I really just want to use a few global variables which are available
> to the whole list of programs
>
> Thanks!

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		COMMON block question By: Paul van Delst on Tue, 30 January 2001 07:53
		Re: common block question By: pgrigis on Thu, 14 April 2011 07:20
		Re: common block question By: oxfordenergyservices on Fri, 15 April 2011 03:02
		Re: common block question By: penteado on Wed, 13 April 2011 16:21
		Re: common block question By: David Fanning on Wed, 13 April 2011 14:17
		Re: common block question By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 15 April 2011 09:13
		Re: common block question By: penteado on Fri, 15 April 2011 08:33

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