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   Clive Page to Steven G. Kargl   
   Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designa   
   03 Oct 24 22:28:31   
   
   From: usenet@page2.eu   
      
   On 03/10/2024 20:59, Steven G. Kargl wrote:   
   > My personal recommendation would be to do a proper porting from   
   > integer (aka integer*4) to integer(kind=8).  And, yes, 8 in the   
   > 'kind=8' is not portable.   
   >   
      
   Yes because different compilers use different integer kind numbers for   
   different purposes: at least one uses kinds 1, 2, 3, 4 for the four most   
   common numbers of bytes where other compilers use 1, 2, 4, 8.   But if you use   
   integer(kind=int64) this is    
   portable.   
      
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