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List:       gcc-fortran
Subject:    Re: puzzled by 'cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fdefault-real-8"'
From:       Tim Prince <n8tm () aol ! com>
Date:       2010-10-23 18:52:54
Message-ID: 4CC32F06.2090503 () aol ! com
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On 10/23/2010 11:45 AM, Anthony Rollett wrote:
> Apologies if the solution to this is obvious but I have a macbook, with 10.6, up to \
> date XCode, openmpi, gfortran (from http://r.research.att.com/tools/) installed.  \
> Am trying to compile an mpi f90 program for which the options include \
> -fdefault-real-8.  I get the error message in the subject line.  I tried using -r8 \
> but I then get errors that suggest that real variables are being left as real*4, \
> and not real*8.  If anyone can illuminate my ignorance I would be most grateful! \
> Tony Rollett, Carnegie Mellon 
This is the usual behavior of most compilers.  Although real*4 isn't 
covered by any standards (it's IBM 360 compatibility syntax), it's 
generally taken to protect against options such as -fdefault-real-8, 
which will be understood only by gfortran, not by gcc.  As the doc says

`-fdefault-real-8'
      Set the default real type to an 8 byte wide type.  Do nothing if
      this is already the default.

Default real means real with no * qualifier.


-- 
Tim Prince


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