Re: whole number constants

"Richard Maine" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> robin <robin_v@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > A single precision value in storage is converted to double precision
> > by appending (extending with) binary zeros.
>
> Nothing in the Fortran standard specifies that.

Nor is the result of 1 + 1.

> It is the most usual
> implementation choice,

It would be highly irregular if it were done otherwise.
(see above comment about 1 + 1)

> but it is not required by the standard. Compiler
> "features" that try to do what the compiler guessed the user meant
> instead of what he actually specified have sometimes been rationalized
> as cases of appeninding non-zero bits in such a conversion.