[Pw_forum] Error encountered while attempting to allocate a d ata object.

Serguei Patchkovskii ps at ned.sims.nrc.ca
Sat Jan 31 21:37:02 CET 2004


On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Konstantin Kudin wrote:
> in memory.f90:
>
> >  integer, parameter :: real_size = 8, int_size = 4
> >  integer, parameter :: comp_size = 2*real_size
>
>  By the following:
>   integer, parameter :: real_size_i = 8, int_size_i = 4
>   integer, parameter :: comp_size_i = 2*real_size_i

Actually, this is a very bad practice from the point of view of
portability. The kind numbers are not guaranteed to have specific
values. Fortunately, Fortran-90 provides a portable way of
specifying non-default kinds (through the SELECTED_REAL_KIND
and SELECTED_INTEGER_KIND intrinsics). Why not use those, and
make the code portable?

Serguei

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