https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82143
--- Comment #12 from janus at gcc dot gnu.org --- (In reply to Steve Kargl from comment #10) > Please don't add a new -fdefault-* option. All of the current > -fdefault-* options should be deprecated in favor of the -freal-*, > -finteger-*, etc options. I really don't think that is a good idea. There are tons of people who use those flags. In fact most real-world Fortran projects that I've worked on use -fdefault-real-8 as a default flag. Usually they support more than just one compiler, so they use ifort's -r8 or equivalent flags for other compilers as well. > I don't have access to ifort, so I have no idea what "-real-size 128" > does. A google search does not find this. Maybe you should work on your web-search skills. Try this: https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/691771 I'm not saying that gfortran needs to duplicate Intel's flags or implementation, but it needs to care about compatibility with other compilers to a certain extent (ifort being one of the more important ones out there).
