Restrictions on Cray Character Pointers and Pointees

All restrictions to Cray pointers also apply to Cray character pointers. In addition, the following apply:

• A Cray character pointee cannot be an array.

• In a relational operation, a Cray character pointer can be mixed with only another Cray character pointer--not with a Cray pointer, not with an integer.

• A relational operation applies only to the character address and the bit offset; the length field is not involved.

• Cray character pointers must not appear in EQUIVALENCE statements, or any storage association statements. (The size can vary with the platform.)

• Cray character pointers are not optimized.

• Code containing Cray character pointers is not parallelized.

• A Cray character pointer in a list of an I/O statement is treated as an integer.