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Mecej4,

If it's a large, pre-existing code, then it's unlikely to use modern features. If it does, then they are the very things most likely to cause problems! Dan seems to have a problem caught b ...

Apologies for being dim, but isn't the point of compiler error messages that you can go away and resolve the problem in the Fortran source code, not to change your compiler? (Unless, of course, the er ...

Since programming is an interest, but by no means my main occupation, I tend to like things that are, or look like, Fortran, and dislike delving into MSDN, where the language is rather alien. So, it m ...

For a moment I thought "Wow, this guy is using really old stuff!", then I realised that the original post was 7 years ago. Some bugs really do take some tracking down.

Is this a record?
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Hi Paul,

Thanks for looking at this.

Eddie

John, If you had to count to 9 billion, even US billions, you'd need an integer bigger than INTEGER*4. Computers I used in the 60s used 24-bit words, and used 2 words for an INTEGER. They could hold ...

I've done some measurements, and with a standard dpi setting, the text typically has a length that equates to about 5.3 pixels per character.

I run a dual monitor setup, with two 1920x1080 screens ...

Paul,

Many thanks for considering this.

Eddie

There isn’t a problem, really. The 64-bit appellation is the addressing mode, not the number of bits in a LOGICAL, INTEGER or REAL. It happens to be the number of bits in a COMPLEX, and a DOUBLE PRECI ...

Paul,

I followed up the suggestion, and it isn't a lot of help. I came across SBARS_SIZEGRIP - that is something that puts the sizing icon in the bottom rhs of the window. Aesthetically, when the c ...

Paul,

Thanks. SET_STATUS_TEXT@ doesn't appear to be in the Library Reference either.

When is the next version due?

Eddie

The help file states somewhat confusingly:

Modifiers
Tilde (~) - indicates that the first panel of the status bar is to be used for help strings.

Description
N is optional. When N > 1, i ...

What integer kind should be the default for a 64 bit compiler is an interesting question.

Of course it is. But it is only a subsidiary question as to what a 64 bit compiler is, or should be. In the ...

Paul,

Thanks.I realised that INTL (INTEGER*4) was the default for FTN95 32-bit. Is INTEGER*8 the default for 64 bit, especially for constants? I suspect not.

FTN95 is rather intelligent, so th ...

Also, the use of 8-byte integer constants in a concise and portable way is always annoying.

Is there a directive similar to INTS and INTL? Compile time options are all very well, but one can forge ...