F90-related question

Steve Kargl sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Mon Dec 9 22:53:00 GMT 2013


On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 11:30:29PM +0100, Janus Weil wrote:
> > Also -freal-4-real-16 is missing, I guess? And what about
> > -finteger-8-integer-4 (does this exist)?
> 
> To answer that myself: While the former exists (and is just missing in
> the docu), the latter does not exist at all.
> 
> Attached is a patch which adds -freal-4-real-16 to the documentation
> and rearranges the kind promotion options to be grouped together. Ok
> for trunk?
> 
> Btw, one other question. The documentation of the -fdefault-* options
> states: "Do nothing if this is already the default."
> Are there platforms/targets where the default real kind is 8? If yes,
> which are those? If not, what is this sentence supposed to tell me?
> 

The patch looks fine.   I don't knw the answers your questions, 
but if I had to guess the sentence can probably be removed.

-- 
Steve



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