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

On 10/15/2024 5:34 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:03:01 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:
 

I am thinking that 32 bit and 64 bit are here to stay for quite a while.

 I think typical memory sizes are doubling maybe every couple of years, if
not sooner. Currently maybe 48-bit memory addresses are sufficient, but it
will be just a matter of a few decades before even 64-bit addresses won’t
be enough.

I suspect a decade at most before 256 bit programming and addressing.
The guys at NIST are talking about quadruple precision as a standard.
Lynn