The gnu compiler itself does not intrinsicly support arbitrary precision types (at least i am fairly certain that it does not). However, you may find the modules at this site useful
http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist/ it looks like this provides an arbitrary precision type with minimal modifications to standard fortran 90 code On 12/14/05, Yigal Weinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a simple way of implementing arbitary precision in gnu fortran > compilation? I got rather confused about what could be easily done and what > cannot be easily done researching it myself. So any feedback would be > great. > > The code I am working on is primarily f77 and it would be better to keep it > fortran than translate it to C etc.. > > Yigal W. > >

