[petsc-dev] fortran literals

[Jeff Hammond]

I'm not away of any difference in *float* values in implementations since
Cray stopped doing 64b float in the 1990s (I may have the details wrong - I
just remember code that calls SGEMM when DGEMM is used otherwise).

Jörg

On Thursday, September 1, 2016, William Gropp <wgropp at illinois.edu> wrote:

> This is true.  The meaning of integer values of kind is up to the
> implementation, and at least two choices are in use.
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> Bill
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> William Gropp
> Acting Director and Chief Scientist, NCSA
> Director, Parallel Computing Institute
> Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science
> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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> On Sep 1, 2016, at 6:15 PM, Blaise A Bourdin <bourdin at lsu.edu
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bourdin at lsu.edu');>> wrote:
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> 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.
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-- 
Jeff Hammond
jeff.science at gmail.com
http://jeffhammond.github.io/
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