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From: Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as
 integer*8 ?
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:12:15 -0500
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On 10/13/2024 7:18 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
> 
>> I have 197 common blocks included from dedicated files and a massive
>> number of equivalences all over the place.  Several of the equivalences
>> are actually in the common block files.  The equivalences have made the
>> eventual C++ conversion of the Fortran code tricky.
> 
> What do you use the equivalences for?  Saving memory? Then this
> should not be a large issue on modern machines.

About the only thing I've used it for is for performing mathematical 
operations on things like characters for encryption or compression 
algorithms.  Using a function for that doesn't appeal to me.

> 
> If you are using them for tricks with type conversion, then you
> are on thin ice already, and have been since Fortran 66.
> 
> And if you have a few big arrays, then changing those to ALLOCATABLE
> and allocating them at runtime might well be straightforward.