I set out to appeal to this list for help with disentangling
a bewildering anomaly that was produced by some dynamically loaded
Fortran code.
In composing an email to explain the nature of the anomaly, I *FINALLY*
spotted the loony! I had an expression in a nested do loop:
j = npro + (r-1)*nvym1 + s
where r and s were the indices of two of the nested loops (explicitly
declared to be integer at the start of the subroutine in question).
When I copied the foregoing expression into the email I at last noticed
that the variable "nvym1" *should* have been "nyvm1". See the subtle
difference? :-)
The variable nvym1 was never initialised, so it took on strange values
plucked out of RAM, I guess. Whence the anomaly. Once I corrected that
trivial typo, things were OK.
Thanks everybody!!! :-)
cheers,
Rolf Turner
P.S. What I can't figure out (and won't waste any time trying) is
why the first four values of j were as they should have been, and things
did not go to hell in a handcart until the code got to the 5th value
of j. I guess the computer gods were just amusing themselves at my
expense.
R. T.
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Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
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