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   Lynn McGuire to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designa   
   02 Oct 24 14:30:48   
   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/2/2024 2:00 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 21:58:40 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   >   
   >> I need many of my integers to be integer*8 in my port to 64 bit.  In   
   >> C/C++ code, I can say 123456L to mean a long long value, generally 64   
   >> bit.  Is there a corresponding way to do this in Fortran ...   
   >   
   >      integer(kind = 8), parameter :: bigval = 9223372036854775807_8   
   >      print *, bigval   
   >   
   > prints   
   >   
   >      9223372036854775807   
      
   Thanks !   
      
   I was afraid of that.  I will have to put _8 in about 100,000 lines of   
   my F77 code.  And the future conversion to C++ will need special handling.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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