Re: identify floating-point types

["Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>]

Well, with some languages (notably C and C++), on some machines, there are
multiple parameter (and memory format) conventions.  But, I have to admit, I
think, in practice, Fortran conventions tend to be pretty consistent, for
any one particular architecture.  There's no harm in checking to make
absolutely sure, though.  (And, shocking as it may sound, compilers do have
bugs, occasionally ;-)

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Nick Roberts
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robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote in message
<7csl7e$26b$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
|In article <7cpk9t$s5o$1@plug.news.pipex.net>,
|  "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
|> In practise, you might need to check your Ada and Fortran
|> compilers' documentation carefully, to see whether the
|> types provided in Interfaces.Fortran do truly match the
|> corresponding Fortran types (on some
|> machines this will be a given thing, but not all).
|
|Nick why do you say this? Have you run into an Ada 95
|compiler where the types did not match? If so, it would
|be a clear bug!