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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: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 05:38:15 -0000 (UTC)
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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 ...