> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:44:38PM -0700, Reg Clemens wrote: > > Most Fortran Compliers I have seen on 32 bit machines have a command > > line option that converts double precision from 64 -> 128 bits. > > > > I see some options in gfortran to control variable lenght, but none that > > do the above. > > Check out: > > -fdefault-double-8 > Set the "DOUBLE PRECISION" type to an 8 byte wide. > I saw that, and find it rather strange. Single precision in normal 32bit, hence 4bytes. That makes double 8bytes by default, so why does this statement exist? I would want something that said -fdefault-double-16 -- Reg.Clemens reg@xxxxxxx