Jan Vorbrüggen <jvorbrueggen-not@mediasec.de> wrote:
[about the use of derived types]

> > d.1) complicated (or impossible) cross-language calls.
>
> Impossible only, I believe, if your compiler "unpredictably" orders
> or pads the data structure when optimizing. Fortran's SEQUENCE isn't
> quite good enough, theoretically, to prevent that (IIUC) - but I don't
> believe this is a big problem in practice.

Note that BIND(C) in f2003 specifically addresses this.

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