<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Alternate complex function syntax - The GNU Fortran Compiler</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="The GNU Fortran Compiler"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Extensions-not-implemented-in-GNU-Fortran.html#Extensions-not-implemented-in-GNU-Fortran" title="Extensions not implemented in GNU Fortran"> <link rel="prev" href="Variable-FORMAT-expressions.html#Variable-FORMAT-expressions" title="Variable FORMAT expressions"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being ``Funding Free Software'', the Front-Cover Texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is: A GNU Manual (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Alternate-complex-function-syntax"></a> <p> Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Variable-FORMAT-expressions.html#Variable-FORMAT-expressions">Variable FORMAT expressions</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Extensions-not-implemented-in-GNU-Fortran.html#Extensions-not-implemented-in-GNU-Fortran">Extensions not implemented in GNU Fortran</a> <hr> </div> <h4 class="subsection">6.2.4 Alternate complex function syntax</h4> <p><a name="index-Complex-function-330"></a> Some Fortran compilers, including <samp><span class="command">g77</span></samp>, let the user declare complex functions with the syntax <code>COMPLEX FUNCTION name*16()</code>, as well as <code>COMPLEX*16 FUNCTION name()</code>. Both are non-standard, legacy extensions. <samp><span class="command">gfortran</span></samp> accepts the latter form, which is more common, but not the former. <!-- --> <!-- Mixed-Language Programming --> <!-- --> </body></html>