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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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 14:30:48 -0500
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On 10/2/2024 2:00 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 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

Thanks !

I was afraid of that.  I will have to put _8 in about 100,000 lines of 
my F77 code.  And the future conversion to C++ will need special handling.

Lynn