Re: Integer Coersion


"David Frank" <dave_frank@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"PJH" <abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Also, has anyone any advice on how to check the number of bits in a REAL
variable.

Paul Holden



nbits = sizeof(anything)*8


Thanks David. I was hoping to avoid non-standard intrinsics and assumptions
about bits-per-byte. But I can't see any other way to do it, so I guess this
is going to be my simplest solution.

I thought there may be some clever way to cook something standard-compliant
up by using TRANSFER; the trouble is that either I'm not clever enough or it
isn't possible... probably the former.

Paul Holden


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