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Local Equivalence Areas (EQUIVALENCE)

g77 treats storage-associated areas involving a COMMON block as explained in the section on common blocks.

A local EQUIVALENCE area is a collection of variables and arrays connected to each other in any way via EQUIVALENCE, none of which are listed in a COMMON statement.

(Note: g77 version 0.5.18 and earlier chose the name for x using a different method when more than one name was in the list of names of entities placed at the beginning of the array. Though the documentation specified that the first name listed in the EQUIVALENCE statements was chosen for x, g77 in fact chose the name using a method that was so complicated, it seemed easier to change it to an alphabetical sort than to describe the previous method in the documentation.)