Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as integer*8 ? Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 17:13:40 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:13:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fe27726c6e329c846811483d5d200367"; logging-data="4103438"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/v6wWnHm+/+me15ZITFLKSpTSE9zDFW6Q=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:kUI0Ivr3gq6n2Dh7xuw1QxJjMwE= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1705 On 10/3/2024 5:08 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 14:32:28 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote: > >> I have 197 common blocks included from dedicated files and a massive >> number of equivalences all over the place. > > Try getting rid of at least some of them, by using “contains”. What does "contains" do ? My knowledge of Fortran stopped at F77+. Lynn