does gfortran do double double ??

[Dave Ihnat]

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.

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