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documentation for typeless constants
- To: egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: documentation for typeless constants
- From: Jim Van Zandt <jrv at mbunix dot mitre dot org>
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 07:38:13 -0500
I suggest this addition to the documentation.
- Jim Van Zandt
--- g77.texi.old Tue Nov 3 07:23:45 1998
+++ g77.texi Tue Nov 3 07:33:43 1998
@@ -5359,7 +5359,11 @@
are nonempty strings of characters in the set @samp{01}, @samp{01234567},
and @samp{0123456789ABCDEFabcdef}, respectively.
(The value for @samp{A} (and @samp{a}) is 10, for @samp{B} and @samp{b}
-is 11, and so on.)
+is 11, and so on.) A prefix-radix constant, such as @samp{Z'ABCD'}, can
+optionally be treated as typeless. @xref{Fortran Dialect
+Options,,Options Controlling Fortran Dialect}, for information on the
+@samp{-ftypeless-boz} option.
+
Typeless constants have values that depend on the context in which
they are used.