BLOCK DATA takes forever to compile...

[BPMan]

I am trying to compile some data in file that goes like this

BLOCK DATA stuff

INTEGER istuff(484484)
REAL rstuff(484484)

EQUIVALENCE istuff(1), rstuff(1)

COMMON someOtherVariable/rstuff

DATA rstuff(1) /1.2/
DATA rstuff(...) /1.2/
DATA rstuff(484484) /1.2/

END

this has been compiled before....and i was told that it only took about 5 minutes on using the greenhills compiler. I have to compile it using gcc. I let it compile for 9 hours and it was still going strong....
anythoughts???
thanks

 

[CaKiwi]

I would expect initializing 484484 elements to take a while, but 9 hours does seem a little excessive. If they are all being intialized to 1.2, try

DATA rstuff/484484*1.2/

CaKiwi

 

[BPMan]

unfortunelty they are not all being initialized to the same thing. the problem is it still has not compiled after 9 hours... and i am not sure that it will ever end. I have read other places that initializing everything backwards makes things faster but i tried that and it did not work....
any other ideas?

 

[xwb]

My version of g77 (0.7) actually puts out an error saying that it will take a long time. It didn't like the array in a common block. The error message said it was on the TODO list for 0.8.

Why not declare the array but initialize it by reading in from a file.