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# ISO_FORTRAN_ENV or -fdefault-real-8 to promote reals to double precision

user2488
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user2488 Published in June 19, 2018, 4:19 pm
 I've always been using the -fdefault-real-8 option of gfortran to automatically promote every single REAL declared anywhere in the program to double precision, along with any constant, e.g. 1.23. If I ever wanted to switch back to single precision, I only had to remove that option and recompile, without changing a single character in the source code. At a point I started using ISO_FORTRAN_ENV module, since it allows me to use constants like INPUT|OUTPUT|ERROR_UNIT, as well as IOSTAT_END and IOSTAT_EOR and others (which seemed to be a good and easy move in the direction of portability, am I wrong?). From then on, I've been seeing and ignoring the following warning Warning: Use of the NUMERIC_STORAGE_SIZE named constant from intrinsic module ISO_FORTRAN_ENV at (1) is incompatible with option -fdefault-real-8  since such incompatibility seems to have no effect so far. Now I'd like to get rid of this warning if it is possible and worth it. If I correctly understood, to avoid this warning I should give up on -fdefault-real-8 option and change every REAL to REAL(real64) and/or to REAL(dp) (provided that, in the latter case, the statement USE, INTRINSIC :: ISO_FORTRAN_ENV, dp => real64 is put in that unit), which is not a difficult task for sed or vim. Nevertheless, it seems to me that this change wouldn't be the same as using -fdefault-real-8 option, since all constants would stay single precision as long as I don't add d0 to them. Assumed the -fdefault-real-8 option is removed and ISO_FORTRAN_ENV is used anywhere, is there any way to make any constant across the program behave as each had d0 suffix? Whether or not this is possible, have I correctly extrapolated that I can put the following lines in a single module which is used by all others program units, each of which can then use dp as kind type parameter? USE, INTRINSIC :: ISO_FORTRAN_ENV INTEGER, PARAMETER :: dp = real64  I would prefer this way since I could switch to real32 or real128 or whatever by changing only that line.
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