Re: getting same output as gfortran, long_float

[robin.vowels@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 12:47:17 AM UTC+10, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Mon, 4 May 2015 06:45:19 -0700 (PDT), r.nospam@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 8:18:37 PM UTC+10, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> >> On Mon, 4 May 2015 01:53:08 -0700 (PDT), r.nospam@gmail.com wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 5:21:28 PM UTC+10, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> >>>> On Sun, 3 May 2015 17:15:15 -0700 (PDT), r.nospam@gmail.com wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 5:45:23 PM UTC+10, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>>> Actually REAL*16 is exactly portable.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> No it's not.
> >>>>> Some compilers treat that is an error.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Portability applies to compilable programs only. You could not compile
> >>>> 
> >>>>    type X is mod 2**64;
> >>>> 
> >>>> either. That does not make it non-portable, IMO.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Portable means: The program exposes same [logically relevant] behavior on
> >>>> all platforms [of interest].
> >>> 
> >>> Portable means that a program that adheres to the language standard
> >>> is capable of running on any system where there is a compiler for that language.
> >> 
> >> Consider a system without text output. According to you Ada's Hello World
> >> program is non-portable because such systems exist.
> > 
> > I said no such thing. 
> 
> No which thing? Ada RTL without Ada.Text_IO?

Read the sentence before "I said no such thing.".