Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as integer*8 ?

On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:12:15 -0500, Gary Scott wrote:

On 10/13/2024 7:18 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:

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What do you use the equivalences for?

 
About the only thing I've used it for is for performing mathematical
operations on things like characters for encryption or compression
algorithms.  Using a function for that doesn't appeal to me.

Builtin functions/methods are the way that sort of thing is done in all
the proper high-level languages. If you are afraid of code efficiency,
don’t be; the compiler knows how to generate good code for its own
intrinsics.