Warn about possible truncation (or roundoff) errors. Most of these are related to integer arithmetic. By default, all warnings are turned on.

This setting provides detailed control over the warnings about possible truncation errors. The list consists of keywords separated by commas or colons. Since all warnings are on by default, include a keyword prefixed by no- to turn off a particular warning. There are three special keywords: all to turn on all the warnings about truncation, none to turn them all off, and help to print the list of all the keywords with a brief explanation of each. If list is omitted, -truncation is equivalent to -truncation=all, and -notruncation is equivalent to -truncation=none. The warning keywords with their meanings are as follows:

int-div-exponent:

use of the result of integer division as an exponent. This suggests that a real quotient is intended. An example would be writing X**(1/3) to evaluate the cube root of X. The correct expression is X**(1./3.).

int-div-real:

Conversion of an expression involving an integer division to real. This suggests that a real quotient is intended.

int-div-zero:

division in an integer constant expression that yields a result of zero.

int-neg-power:

exponentiation of an integer by a negative integer (which yields zero unless the base integer is 1 in magnitude). This suggests that a real base is intended.

promotion:

automatic conversion of a lower precision quantity to one of higher precision. The loss of accuracy for real variables in this process is comparable to the corresponding demotion. No warning is given for promotion of integer quantities to real since this is ordinarily exact.

real-do-index:

use of a non-integer DO index in a loop with integer bounds. An integer DO index with real bounds is always warned about regardless of this setting.

real-subscript:

use of a non-integer array subscript.

significant-figures:

overspecifying a single precision constant. This may indicate that a double precision constant was intended.

size-demotion:

automatic conversion of a higher precision quantity to one of lower precision of the same type. This warning only occurs when an explicit size is used in declaring the type of one or both operands in an assignment. For example, a warning wil be issued where a REAL*8 variable is assigned to a REAL variable, if the default wordsize of 4 is in effect. A warning is also issued if a long integer is assigned to a shorter one, for example, if an INTEGER expression is assigned to an INTEGER*2 variable. There is one exception to this last case, namely if the right hand side of the assignment is a small literal constant (less than 128). type-demotion: automatic conversion of a higher precision quantity to one of lower precision of different type. This warning includes conversion of real quantities to integer, double precision to single precision real, and assignment of a longer character string to a shorter one.

The warnings about promotion and demotion also apply to complex constants, considering the precision to be that of the real or imaginary part. Warnings about promotions and demotions are given only when the conversion is done automatically, e.g. in expressions of mixed precision or in an assignment statement. If intrinsic functions such as INT are used to perform the conversion, no warning is given.

See also: -portability, -wordsize.

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