strange gfortran problem

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:14, Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at tacc.utexas.edu>wrote:

> On Apr 26, 2012, at 11:22 PM, Jason Swails wrote:
> > The problem is that the behavior you are seeing is allowed under the
> Fortran standard
>
> I'll take your word for it. I ran into this when I compiling some software
> that used kind(5) as a synonym for INTEGER*4 (after all, 32k is 5 digits)
> and such, and I was getting type errors.
>

IBM claims:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxpcomp/v8v101/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.xlf101l.doc%2Fxlflr%2Fintkind.htm

*SELECTED_INT_KIND(R)*

    Returns a value of the kind type parameter of an integer data type that
represents all integer values n with -10R < n < 10R.

Neither -99,999 nor 99,999 fit in INTEGER*4.

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