Sun Studio 12: Fortran Library Reference

3.3.2 Environmental Inquiry Functions ¤

None of these functions are part of the FORTRAN 77 Standard.

Table 3–7 Fortran 77 Environmental Inquiry Functions

Definition  

No. of Args.  

Generic Name  

Argument Type  

Function Type  

Base of Number System 

1 

EPBASE

INTEGER

REAL

DOUBLE

REAL*16

INTEGER

INTEGER

INTEGER

INTEGER

Number of Significant Bits 

1 

EPPREC

INTEGER

REAL

DOUBLE

REAL*16

INTEGER

INTEGER

INTEGER

INTEGER

Minimum Exponent 

1 

EPEMIN

REAL

DOUBLE

REAL*16

INTEGER

INTEGER

INTEGER

Maximum Exponent 

1 

EPEMAX

REAL

DOUBLE

REAL*16

INTEGER

INTEGER

INTEGER

Least Nonzero Number 

1 

EPTINY

REAL

DOUBLE

REAL*16

REAL

DOUBLE

REAL*16

Largest Number Representable 

1 

EPHUGE

INTEGER

REAL

DOUBLE

REAL*16

INTEGER

REAL

DOUBLE

REAL*16

Epsilon See Note (16).

1 

EPMRSP

REAL

DOUBLE

REAL*16

REAL

DOUBLE

REAL*16