Path: ...!news.tomockey.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as integer*8 ? Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:46:40 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 06:46:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="09c3a6258649853b35a1088b6047d328"; logging-data="868190"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19uY1+Ogu1BC/LPiBCsK/o/O3DJp0CYXX4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:yVz0zc0y6xuvSBhT5g2JA4yHpBk= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2359 On 10/20/2024 12:38 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 15:04:38 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote: > >> On 10/5/2024 1:39 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> >>> If I were you, I would look for opportunities to simplify things in >>> that Fortran code by using new features, where I have to make major >>> modifications to those parts anyway. >> >> All of the modifications that I am making are minor. Mostly changing my >> old 8 byte data structure/union to I*8 and L*8. > > Here’s another useful thing to do: get rid of COMMON blocks and replace > them with MODULE «name» ... USE «name». > > As the compiler does its checking, you may pick up a few long-unnoticed > typos along the way ... I include all of my common blocks as files to stop typos. Lynn