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Memory Organization. Variables

Discuss how memory is organized

Variables correspond to storage locations in memory. They are denoted by identifiers, which obey the following restrictions:

At the beginning of the program, we declare the types of the variables. Declarations reserve the necessary number of bytes in memory and ``bind'' the variable name (identifier) to the address of the reserved memory space; the content of the reserved bytes will hold the variable's value. There are 6 intrinsic (default) data types in Fortran: character, logical, integer, real (single precision), double precision and complex. The last four types are refferred to as numeric data types.



Adrian Sandu 2001-08-26