HP Fortran Programmer's Reference

Derived type objects
Records
HP Fortran statements
SAVE (statement and attribute)
If the name of a common block appears in save-list, it must be delimited by slashes (for
example, /my_block/); all variables in the named common block are saved. If a common block
is saved in one program unit, it must be saved in all program units (except main) where it
appears.
HPFortranalwayssavesallcommonblocks.
The following must not appear in save-list:
Formal argument names
Procedure names
Selected items in a common block
Variables declared with the AUTOMATIC statement or attribute
Function results
Automatic data objects (such as automatic arrays, allocatable arrays, automatic character
strings, and Fortran 90 pointers)
Initializing a variable in a DATA statement or in a type declaration statement implies that the
variable has the SAVE attribute, unless the variable is in a named common block in a block
data subprogram.
A SAVE statement in a main program unit has no effect.
Examples
The SAVE statement in the following example saves the variables a, b, andc, aswellasthe
variables in the common block dot:
SUBROUTINE matrix
SAVE a, b, c, /dot/
RETURN
The SAVE statement in the next example saves the values of all of the variables in the
subroutine fixit:
SUBROUTINE fixit
SAVE
RETURN
Related statements
AUTOMATIC and STATIC
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