--- Comment #1 from kargl at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-10-24 14:47 ---
It is not a bug. "i = - 2147483648" is a unary minus operation on the
number 2147483648. This number overflows the range. If you want
the most negative number for an integer use "i = - huge(i) - 1".
I've already po
--- 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 woul
--- Comment #3 from kargl at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-10-24 15:25 ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> 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 pro
--- Comment #4 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-10-24 15:57 ---
You should note that C has the same issue really.
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--- Comment #5 from kloedej at knmi dot nl 2006-10-25 07:16 ---
Thanks for your additional explanation, and the link to the original mail in
the mailing list.
A last remark on my side is then about the actual text of this error message.
People not familiar with the choice made in the fo
--- Comment #6 from kloedej at knmi dot nl 2006-10-31 08:25 ---
A short additional remark on this item:
I just learned (thanks to Paul Poli) that the NAGware f95 compiler does behave
in the same way as gfortran, i.e. refusing to compile the constant -2147483648
in:
integer(KIND=4) :: i
--- Comment #7 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-02-27 21:50 ---
*** Bug 30985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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