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From: rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosencranz)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: more bc babble
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Date: 15 Dec 90 18:47:58 GMT
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In article <OLES.90Dec13213301@kelvin.uio.no> oles@kelvin.uio.no (Ole Swang) writes:
>
>Another easy-to-memorize benchmark 
> [...]
>
>      PROGRAM RR
>      DOUBLE PRECISION R
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

why not REAL*8 R? then it probably need not be modified for any system.
this probably assumes ANSI Fortran 77, though.

for ANSI C, you would probably have to specify double R (pcc would promote
float to double in many if not most systems but ANSI C would not).

-bill
rosenkra@convex.com

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