gfortran precision

[Paul Brook]

On Monday 09 August 2004 00:34, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> What is the highest floating point precision supported by gfortran on a
> IA-32 architecture (ie P4)?  Is it possible to get to KIND=16?

gfortran currently only supports IEEE single (4-byte) and double (8-byte) 
floating point formats.

Note that the P4 doesn't support quad precision in hardware. It does support 
an 80-bit "extended" format, which is then padded to 12 or 16 bytes.

Paul