bug in g77

[Steven Castillo]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Toon Moene wrote:

> Steven Castillo wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to run some fortran codes requiring very large arrays (~ 1
> > gbyte).  When trying to compile a fortran code with a declared single
> > precision floating point array having a length of more than 134217727
> > using the command:
> 
> Yes, this is a well-known limitation of g77:  It calculates all sizes of
> objects in bits, so on 32-bit targets, the size of a REAL array is
> limited to 2**32/32 - 1= 2**27 - 1 = 134217728 - 1 = 134217727 elements.
> 
> Your choices:
> 
> 1. Help us fix this.
> 
> 2. Switch to a 64-bit target, like Alpha.
> 
> [ Hint:  The latter may be cheaper ]
> 
> 

Hello Toon:

Thank you for your prompt reply!  I think that you pose an interesting
problem that we may want to take a look at.  I am not sure I agree with
your second possible solution.  Give me a hint at where in the source code
to look and we may give it a shot.

Regards,
 -- 
Steve Castillo

Professor and Department Head
Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Mexico State University
scastill@nmsu.edu
(505)646-3117