On 03/12/2012 05:28 PM, Janne Blomqvist wrote:
Hi,
currently when writing a value of type real or complex using
list-directed output, the G0 edit descriptor, or namelist output,
gfortran chooses the number of significant digits such that a
binary-ascii-binary roundtrip recovers the original
Thus, I suggest that the choice of d should be based on readability
and usefulness for the common case rather than guaranteeing an exact
roundtrip.
I'm not sure I see the value in this choice. In addition to standard
requirements, quality of implementation issues shouldn't be neglected. At
