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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: A new twist
Message-ID: <1991@compass.com>
Date: 29 May 90 14:34:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: compass.1991
Organization: Compass, Inc., Wakefield, MA
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Ken Shafer (klshafer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu) writes:
> The object lesson here is that, if for ANY reason you can not use 
> character types to store character data, USE TYPE INTEGER rather
> than TYPE REAL.

There's no guarantee that even that works.  On a one's compliment
machine (like the old 60-bit CDC machines), all-ones and all-zeroes
both represent integer 0, in which case INTEGER .EQ. might not do what
you want, unless you know that at least one of these values can't
occur.

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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