Hi,
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, 8:41pm -0800, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 30 years ago, the Fortran standard did suggest that integers and reals
> should occupy the same storage space. When you have millions of lines of
> code from that era which still work, hardware which fits that model has its
> uses. I don't know that any particular compiler was in question.
If I'm not mistaken, the standard *required* (not "suggested") it,
and still does.
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