------- Comment #2 from kloedej at knmi dot nl 2006-10-24 15:04 ------- In my simple view as a physicist the minus sign is an integral part of the number and not an operation on it, but then I didn't have a formal computer science education. As a gfortran programmer you have a choice here I would say.
Just note that you can expect a lot of complaints about this behaviour, since all other compilers that I regularly use (ifort, g95, pgf90) accept -2147483648 as a proper 4 byte integer constant without any warnings. Also note that I was not able to find the mail you refer to on the gfortran mailing list. Searching on -2147483648 yields nothing, and there is way to much noise to find it by browsing through the list. best regards, Jos de Kloe -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29580
