Re: busting sp datatypes

Ron Ford <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think this is a counterexample to the notion that 4 might be the default
int for conforming implementations.

Like Ron Shepard, I sometimes have trouble parsing the English in your
postings, before one even gets into questions of Fortran. I don't know
what the above is supposed to mean. If it is supposed to mean anything
close to what it sounds like, then it is obviously false (obviously
enough so that it makes me suspicious that I misunderstood the meaning).

You can't disprove a claim that something might be so in some cases by
giving a counterexample showing that it isn't so in some other case.
There's probably a name for that kind of logical falacy. Somewhat like
me saying that my pet is a dog and you saying that can't be so because
your pet is a cat.

I'm also don't know for sure what you mean by "4 might be the default
int". I could guess, but it is frankly too much bother to try to verify
the guess. I suppose you are talking about the kind value for default
integer, but maybe you are talking about the size in bytes (sometimes,
but not always the same thing), or the number of decimal digits, or...

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