Re: Open Watcom Fortran compiler help needed

From: "Kevin G. Rhoads" <kgrhoads@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:44:12 +0000

>* Why would you want LOGICAL * 8? Why not just LOGICAL? I can understand
>INTEGER * 8 and REAL * 16; is there already underlying support in the
>compiler back-end?

There are legacy codes that equivalence (i.e., map, union) INTEGER and LOGICAL onto
the same storage. Having identical lengths avoids array index funnies.
.

References:
- Open Watcom Fortran compiler help needed
  - From: Lynn McGuire
- Re: Open Watcom Fortran compiler help needed
  - From: max

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