Possible explaination why large_real_kind_form_io_2.f90 is failing on PPC/OSX

[Brooks Moses]

Dominique Dhumieres wrote:
> (3) one thing which is unclear for me is what part of real(10/16) is coming
> from the system libraries and what part is coming from the gcc ones.
> If everything is coming from the gcc libraries (4.3 in my case) and given
> the inclusion of gmp/mpfr, I don't understand why there is no real(16) on
> x86, but I am certainly missing something relevant.

The inclusion of gmp/mpfr is just on the compiler end, not the runtime 
library end.  Thus, it would make possible to do the constant-folding of 
real(16) values, but it would not offer anything at all for runtime 
manipulation of them.

- Brooks