CHARACTER - Declare a CHARACTER argument

Description:

Declare a C function argument, given that the actual argument will be a CHARACTER variable passed from a FORTRAN program.

Invocation:

CHARACTER(arg)

Arguments:

arg

The dummy argument to be declared.

Examples:

CHARACTER(x)

will expand as follows:

All Unix:	char $*$x
VAX/VMS:	struct dsc$descriptor_s $*$x_arg

Notes:

On a VAX/VMS system, the macro expands to a pointer to a descriptor whereas on other systems it expands to a pointer to char.