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I'd appreciate information or pointers to information about how
Fortran character strings are stored on Cray machines.  I have the
impression that sometimes they are word-aligned, but I don't know how
they then honor the X3.9-1978 standard which requires adjacency of
elements of a character array.  Perhaps only the first element of the
array is mandatorily aligned, and rest are also aligned only if the
length of each element is an integer multiple of 8?

Hopefully related enough to not need a separate post, can someone tell
me what the addressability is of data on Cray machines?  What does the
machine have to do to extract an arbitrary character from a string?

Thanks in advance.$$
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