075. KIND numbers of types are not portable across compilers and should not be used directly.#

topic: Data types

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KIND numbers of types are not portable across compilers and should not be used directly. It’s better to use the named constants from iso_fortran_env. For both gfortran and Intel Fortran

use iso_fortran_env print*,int8,int16,int32,int64

gives 1 2 4 8, but NAG gives 1 2 3 4.



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