<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Option: pointersize</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor=white> <A HREF="toc.html">Table of Contents</A><P> <P>Previous: <A HREF="output.html">-output</A><HR><P> <H2>Option: <font color=#FF0080>pointersize</font></H2><P> <A NAME="pointersize"></A><DT><B><A HREF="pointersize.html">-pointersize</A>=</B><I>num</I> <DD> <DL COMPACT><DT><DD> Specifies the size of a ``Cray pointer'' variable to be <I>num</I> bytes. Default = turn-on = 4 bytes. <P> The pointer size is used to inform precision mismatch warnings involving pointer variables, for example when a pointer is assigned a value from an allocation routine, or passed as a subprogram parameter. <P> See also: <B><A HREF="f77.html">-f77</A></B>, <B><A HREF="portability.html">-portability</A></B>, <B><A HREF="truncation.html">-truncation</A></B>, <B><A HREF="wordsize.html">-wordsize</A></B>. </DL> <P> <P><HR><P>Next: <A HREF="portability.html">-portability</A> </BODY></HTML>