fpt and WinFPT Reference Manual - Command-line Commands

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CHANGE BYTE TO INTEGER

Syntax:

[DO NOT] CHANGE BYTE [TO] INTEGER [*<integer>]

Function:

Systematically changes BYTE declarations to INTEGER declarations, with the specified size if a size specification is made. IMPLICIT statements and data type statements are modified throughout the program.

The new type is used to compute the addresses of objects in COMMON blocks and of fields in records which are used by the name and argument checks and in the symbol and COMMON block listings (See CHECK NAMES, CHECK ARGUMENTS, SYMBOL LISTING and COMMON BLOCK LISTING).

Where to Use this Command

Operating system command line Yes
Configuration file, config.fsp Yes
Specification (fsp) files, *.fsp Yes
Interactively, to FPT> prompt No
Interactive command files No
Embedded in the Fortran code No

Default

Declarations are not changed by default (Note that defaults may be changed in the configuration file).

Examples

On the operating system command-line:

$ fpt heli "%change byte to integer*1"

See Also

CHANGE SIZE CHECK ARGUMENTS CHECK NAMES COMMON BLOCK LISTING

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