[FLASH-USERS] #define E problem

[Seyit Hocuk]

Hi,

I haven't posted for a while, but I just came accross an interesting 
problem. The interesting part is that I did not have this issue in the past.

The number of electrons is defined as E (i.e., #define E 4) in 
Multispecies.h. Because of this, wherever I include this header file my 
exponent notation with capital E's are giving wrong numbers. For example 
1.0E-24 gives -22.96 (that is 1.04 - 24) instead of 10^(-24) , while 
1.0e-24 correctly results in the right number. If this is the expected 
behaviour, I find it illogical.

I've succesfully reproduced this with most intel fortran compilers from 
11.0 to 14.0. I don't know why it appears now and did not in the past. 
The compiler flags -uppercase or -lowercase (or -name lowercase) do not 
help in this case.

My question is how do I avoid this problem without changing the 
definition, since I would have to change everywhere where the 
multispecies unit is used for electrons, or without manually changing my 
exponent notations to lower cases everywhere. Maybe the manual way isn't 
much work, but I don't want to search the whole code.

Best wishes,
Seyit



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Dr. S. Hocuk
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