X3J3/96-058

Date:        February 21, 1996
To:          X3J3
From:        Jeanne Martin
Subject:     Proposal A
References:  X3J3/96-57  User control of pointer bounds
             X3J3/95-007R2


PROPOSAL A  Add an optional lower bound specifier to the left side of the
pointer assignment statement.

Text changes

Page 110, line 39, change to

R736 pointer-assignment-stmt is
     pointer-object [ (bounds-spec-list) ] => target

R736a bounds-spec            is  [ lower-bound ] :

Page 110, after line 42, add

Constraint:  The number of <bounds-specs> specified shall be equal to
             the rank of <pointer-object>.

Page 111, after line 22, add to NOTE 7.46

  WINDOW2(0:, 0:) => MAT2D (ML:MU, NL:NU)



Page 55, lines 41 through 45, change to

(2)  They are specified in a pointer assignment statement.  If a
     <bounds-spec-list> is present, it specifies the lower bound for each
     dimension.  The extent of a dimension of a pointer is the extent of
     the corresponding dimension of the target.  If the lower bound is d
     and the extent of the corresponding dimension of the target is s,
     the value of the upper bound is s + d - 1.  If the lower bounds are
     not specified, the lower bound of each dimension is the result of
     the intrinsic function LBOUND (13.14.53) applied to the correspond-
     ing dimension of the target.  The upper bound of each dimension is
     the result of the intrinsic function UBOUND (13.14.113) applied to
     the corresponding dimension of the target.