Re: KIND related issues on NAGware f95 v 4.1

From: Madhusudan Singh (spammers-go-here_at_spam.invalid)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:26:20 -0400

Richard E Maine wrote:

> Madhusudan Singh <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> writes:
>
>> That is right. Quad precision is being used in one part of my code. EULER
>> is just being defined as quad as it is used there.
>
> Note that Euler is *NOT* defined as quad in the code you showed. Namely
>
>> REAL(DP), PARAMETER ::
>> EULER=0.5772156649015328606065120900824024310422_qp
>
> The real(DP) bit defines it as of kind DP. The _qp used in the value
> does *NOT* change that. Instead it just means that, after going to
> the trouble of writing a quad value, you then tell the compiler to
> convert it to double.
>
> That's what Paul was talking about. (Though I'm not Paul, I'm
> quite confident of that.)
>

I know. Its a typo. My cut and paste was not working, and I had to type it
all in :)

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