alternate forms of typeless constants

[Dave Love]

>>>>> "JRVZ" == James R Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com> writes:

 JRVZ> I am trying to use g77 to compile SPLP, from the SLATEC Common
 JRVZ> Mathematical Library.  The library includes a function r1mach.f
 JRVZ> which returns machine specific parameters.

The Slatec *mach stuff is broken.  Use the routines in the current
BLAS, from Netlib or wherever.  (I don't think Slatec is now maintained.)