<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">This is true. The meaning of integer values of kind is up to the implementation, and at least two choices are in use.<div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Sep 1, 2016, at 6:15 PM, Blaise A Bourdin <<a href="mailto:bourdin@lsu.edu">bourdin@lsu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">If I recall correctly, fortran does not mandate that "selected_real_kind(5)" means the same across compilers, so that hardcoding kind values may not be portable.</span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>