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Re: KINDs
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 07:28:16PM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 07:19:21PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
>
> > I doubt gfortran will support 8 and
> > 16 bit REALs, so mapping REAL(1) to REAL(4) and REAL(2) to
> > REAL(8) should be straight forward (famous last words :).
>
> Yes, but on the integer side, you're kinda screwed.
Who uses integers :(
> Thanks for the info. I was asking so that I can keep pathf90
> compatible with where g77/gfortran is going.
What's pathf90?
> As a second question, are you guys going to abandon the f2c calling
> convention? See the g77 info pages for a description of -fno-f2c to
> see what I mean. We decided to follow the AMD64 ABI and use a flag for
> back-compatibility for individual functions. It's unfortunate that
> this ancient ABI is used on even new platforms with g77.
At one time gfortran was going to have a compiler flag to support the
77 calling convention. Paul Brook, I believe, removed all the
brokeness in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2004-04/msg00043.html.
One thing I hate about the CVS commit messages in the GCC tree
is that the messages actually don't tell you why a change was
made and the message is often too terse.
--
Steve