------- Comment #7 from jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu dot org 2009-10-16 01:41 ------- I had a chance to review our code here. It uses gfc_xtoa which resides in runtime\error.c. All of our conversion routines are dependent on GFC_UINTEGER_LARGEST which is platform dependent. I think there is a significant rework we would have to do to support conversion of real(10) to a hex string on all platforms.
One possible way would be to embed some special case helper functions in the existing routines. We would be in effect implementing an internal kind=16 integer of sorts for the older x86 machines. i am not sure its worth the effort. For now, I think we need to trap the kind and give a decent error message, possibly at compile time. Any other thoughts. If the demand is there, we could implement this. I just don't think the demand is there. Comments? -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41711
