Hello,

On 2012-04-08 21:14:23 +0000, Richard Maine said:

> Isolation of nonportable things is one of the most important principles
> in writing code that is easy to port and maintain.

Many compilers (well, ifort and gfortran JOTTOMH) support
the f08 iso_fortran_env constants real32, real64, and real128.
They are portable and precise.

If you don't like the names, just rename on the use statement.

use, intrinsic :: iso_fortran_env, only: my_better_name => real64

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Cheers!

Dan Nagle