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call fortran routine from C++ function
- a FORTRAN90 subroutine is like a C++ void function, and should be declared this way in the C++ code. The qualifier extern should also be used.
- a FORTRAN90 subroutine or function expects all its arguments to be passed by reference. This generally means simply that the C++ function must pass scalar variables by reference, not value.
- typically, when the FORTRAN90 compiler compiles the FORTRAN90 code, the names of functions and subroutines are stored with an appended underscore. In order for these names to be found by the C++ code, it is necessary that the C++ code declare and invoke the FORTRAN90 functions and subroutines with the underscore explicitly appended to the name.
- in many cases, a FORTRAN90 compiler is simply a "front end" to a corresponding C++ compiler, as in the case of the GNU compilers gfortran and g++, or the Intel compilers ifort and icpp. This means that, as long as the corresponding compilers are used to compile the FORTRAN90 and C++ codes, it is probably possible to use either compiler to link and load the object codes; however, the load command may need to specify explicitly certain libraries associated with one of the languages. For instance, if loading using the gcc command, it is necessary to include "-l gfortran" so that the FORTRAN90 I/O libraries, among others, are included in the build.