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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as
 integer*8 ?
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 07:00:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 21:58:40 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:

> I need many of my integers to be integer*8 in my port to 64 bit.  In
> C/C++ code, I can say 123456L to mean a long long value, generally 64
> bit.  Is there a corresponding way to do this in Fortran ...

    integer(kind = 8), parameter :: bigval = 9223372036854775807_8
    print *, bigval

prints

    9223372036854775807