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[Support #DKO-246585]: make check fails f90 tests when built with 64

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  • Subject: [Support #DKO-246585]: make check fails f90 tests when built with 64
  • Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:32:18 -0600
> Ed,
>
> You are just about correct. In Fortran I need to use 64-bit ints and floats
> to ensure that the code generates stable solutions. When I compile the
> netCDF code, I believe that I need to specify the same 64-bit interfaces
> otherwise subroutines/functions will not be called correctly. However,
> there is no way to specify the size of the int in C in AIX (or other
> compilers to my knowledge).  It is, by default, 32 bits.
>
> The only solution that I have been able to think of so far is to define the
> Fortran to C function call interfaces so that when Fortran calls with a
> 64-bit integer, the interface casts that to a 32-bit integer before
> invoking the C code. It seems to me that this might be possible in
> ncfortran.h and it would be nice to do this using some automatic edit. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

To understand ncfortran.h is to taste madness.

But let me see if I understand your problem. You want to calculate with 64-bit
integers, but write 32-bit integers?

If so, then you can do that without any code modification...

Ed

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: DKO-246585
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Open