On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Mark Taylor wrote:
> Since INTEGER*8 is outside of the F77 standard in any case, it's just
> down to what the compiler authors thought was best. But I'd have
> thought it would be perverse to give you anything other than an
> INTEGER*8 here.
That's what I'd say as well.
The principle with mixed-mode expressions (discouraged by the Starlink
Fortran programming standard) is that everything gets promoted to the
highest level present, in this case INTEGER*8.
Patrick Wallace
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