From: garylscott@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 10/13/2024 4:52 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   > Hello world,   
   >   
   > J3 has passed https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/24/24-116.txt , a   
   > proposal for unsigned numbers in Fortran, in their February/March   
   > meeting.   
   >   
   > Gfortran 15, to be released in the beginning of 2025, will contain   
   > an experimental implementation of that proposal.  The current   
   > development version already has that documentation, so if you   
   > are so inclined, you can download and compile it for yourself to   
   > try it out already.   
   >   
   > This feature can be accessed by using the -funsigned flag.   
   > Some short documentation can be found at   
   >   
   > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Unsigned-integers.html   
   >   
   > Test cases (also doubling as use examples) can be found at   
   > https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=tree;f=gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg   
   > (any file that has "unsigned" in its name).   
   >   
   > Bug reports and comments are welcome.   
   >   
   > Enjoy!   
   >   
   > Best regards   
   >   
   > 	Thomas   
   Yay?  :) I'm so used to using larger signed integers and various tricks   
   that I'll probably never use it, but at least I have the option now.   
      
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