[MOAB-dev] r5072 - MOAB/trunk/itaps

[jvporter at wisc.edu]

Author: jvporter
Date: 2011-07-28 11:23:45 -0500 (Thu, 28 Jul 2011)
New Revision: 5072

Modified:
   MOAB/trunk/itaps/iBase.h
Log:
Update iBase spec


Modified: MOAB/trunk/itaps/iBase.h
===================================================================
--- MOAB/trunk/itaps/iBase.h	2011-07-25 06:05:56 UTC (rev 5071)
+++ MOAB/trunk/itaps/iBase.h	2011-07-28 16:23:45 UTC (rev 5072)
@@ -331,6 +331,9 @@
  * NOT include the null character and implementations must be coded to
  * accommodate this. This requirement is primarily due to differences in how
  * Fortran and C/C++ handle passing of strings as function arguments.
+ * Furthermore, because of the way Fortran clients pass strings (Fortran always
+ * passes the length of the string as declared in the source code), there
+ * may be trailing spaces in the string that need to be truncated.
  *
  * \page numhops Indirection in Set-Inclusion and Parent-Child structures
  *