FREE — Frees memory

Description

Frees memory previously allocated by MALLOC. The FREE intrinsic is an extension intended to be used with Cray pointers, and is provided in GNU Fortran to allow user to compile legacy code. For new code using Fortran 95 pointers, the memory de-allocation intrinsic is DEALLOCATE.

Syntax

CALL FREE(PTR)

Arguments

PTR The type shall be INTEGER. It represents the location of the memory that should be de-allocated.

Return value

None

Example

See MALLOC for an example.

Standard

GNU extension

Class

Subroutine