fpt Reference: CHANGE REAL TO DOUBLE PRECISION

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CHANGE REAL TO DOUBLE PRECISION

Syntax:

CHANGE REAL*<integer> [TO] DOUBLE [PRECISION]
DO NOT CHANGE REAL TO DOUBLE PRECISION

Function:

Systematically changes REAL declarations with the specified size to DOUBLE PRECISION declarations. IMPLICIT statements are modified or added 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

The command CHANGE DOUBLE PRECISION TO REAL changes DOUBLE PRECISION declarations to REAL declarations systematically throughout a program.

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 real*8 to double precision"