[PATCH] gfortran -- Map REAL128 to REAL kind type with widest precision

[Steve Kargl]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 04:52:09PM -0800, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> 
> gcc112 is a power8 machine.
> 
> $ gfc -static -mfloat128 -mcpu=power8 foo.f90
> $ ./a.out
> 16 106 31
> 
> $ gfc -static -mfloat128 -mabi=ieeelongdouble foo.f90
> gfc: warning: using IEEE extended precision long double
> f951: Warning: using IEEE extended precision long double
> $ ./a.out
> 16 113 33
> 

The warning looks strange.  You've clearly asked the 
compiler to use IEEE 754, so why warn?  Seems like a
bug.

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Steve
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