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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <g...@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: how to declare doubles in f95
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:15:37 +0000 (UTC)
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Richard Maine <nos...@see.signature> wrote:
> Larry Gates <la...@example.invalid> wrote:
 
>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:42:32 -0800 (PST), e p chandler wrote:
 
>> > integer, parameter :: dp = kind(1.0d0)
 
>> Is this guaranteed to give dp as opposed to qp?
 
> Yes. My imagination fails me in trying to come with a way 
> that one might even think otherwise.

Well, if you have AUTODBL, or whatever the automatic
double option is, then it could be what otherwise would
have been quad.  But I agree, that previous quad is
now double. 

It is the type that you would get with a

      DOUBLE PRECISION 

statement, which is double precision.

-- glen