Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs!vw.acs.umn.edu!dhoyt From: dhoyt@vw.acs.umn.edu Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Packing, Ordering, and Rearranging Message-ID: <2263@ux.acs.umn.edu> Date: 25 Sep 90 15:14:28 GMT Sender: news@ux.acs.umn.edu Organization: University of Minnesota, Academic Computing Services Lines: 7 In article <3827@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes... >the Fortran 77 standard says nothing about how big an integer is except >that INTEGER and REAL are the same size. It says nothing about size period. FORTRAN on pdp-11's, Harris machines, and many others had different sized integers and reals. david