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diff --git a/flang/docs/Character.md b/flang/docs/Character.md index 4e1d407..96e0a06 100644 --- a/flang/docs/Character.md +++ b/flang/docs/Character.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ --> -# Implementation of `CHARACTER` types in f18 +# Implementation of `CHARACTER` types in Flang ```{contents} --- @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ local: ## Kinds and Character Sets -The f18 compiler and runtime support three kinds of the intrinsic +The Flang compiler and runtime support three kinds of the intrinsic `CHARACTER` type of Fortran 2018. The default (`CHARACTER(KIND=1)`) holds 8-bit character codes; `CHARACTER(KIND=2)` holds 16-bit character codes; @@ -108,12 +108,12 @@ The result of `//` may be used * as the value of a specifier of an I/O statement, * or as the value of a statement function. -The f18 compiler has a general (but slow) means of implementing concatenation +The Flang compiler has a general (but slow) means of implementing concatenation and a specialized (fast) option to optimize the most common case. ### General concatenation -In the most general case, the f18 compiler's generated code and +In the most general case, Flang's generated code and runtime support library represent the result as a deferred-length allocatable `CHARACTER` temporary scalar or array variable that is initialized as a zero-length array by `AllocatableInitCharacter()` |