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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: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:46:40 -0500
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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