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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
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 13:53:35 -0000 (UTC)
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R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov> schrieb:

> Equivalences are an effective way of building data structures, you can 
> do that with Common as well but sometimes equivalence is more suitable.

Can you give an example? I have a hard time imagining what it would
be useful for.