J3/03-108 Date: 2003 Jan 12 To: J3 From: Dan Nagle Subject: Response to Comment In response to a public comment on the CD, (Comment #9 from A. Markus, point #2), J3 agreed to recommend that constants be added to the ISO_FORTRAN_ENV intrinsic module to specify the sizes of the numeric storage unit, the character storage unit, and the file storage unit. This paper proposes edit to do so. EDITS: 354:9+ Add: 13.8.3.3 Size of Storage Units The processor shall provide three constants giving the processor-dependent sizes of the numeric storage unit, the character storage unit, and the file storage unit, expressed in bits. 13.8.3.3.1 NUMERIC_STORAGE_SIZE The value of the default integer scalar constant NUMERIC_STORAGE_SIZE is assigned the size expressed in bits of the numeric storage unit. 13.8.3.3.2 CHARACTER_STORAGE_SIZE The value of the default integer scalar constant CHARACTER_STORAGE_SIZE is assigned the size expressed in bits of the character storage unit. 13.8.3.3.3 FILE_STORAGE_SIZE The value of the default integer scalar constant FILE_STORAGE_SIZE is assigned the size expressed in bits of the file storage unit.