Re: preprocessor/5416: Need flag for cpp to allow fortran comments

[Matt Fago <fago@caltech.edu>]

The following reply was made to PR preprocessor/5416; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matt Fago <fago@caltech.edu>
To: neil@gcc.gnu.org, fago@caltech.edu, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org,
        gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, nobody@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: preprocessor/5416: Need flag for cpp to allow fortran comments
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:37:52 -0800

 Using cpp with g77 is abusing cpp? I hope not!  I can certainly use sed, 
 but I had hoped it would not be necessary in the future. BTW, suggesting 
 that people use c-style comments in Fortran code seems silly, and would 
 be difficult in my case even with sed.
 
 As for nixing the change ... ok, I certainly don't know the details.
 
 Matt
 
 On Thursday, January 17, 2002, at 01:54  PM, neil@gcc.gnu.org wrote:
 
 > Synopsis: Need flag for cpp to allow fortran comments
 >
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: neil
 > State-Changed-When: Thu Jan 17 13:54:26 2002
 > State-Changed-Why:
 >     I really have no interest in implementing this; we don't
 >     want to encourage people to abuse cpp.  I expect that most
 >     of your problems would be solved by -traditional with
 >     judicious use of a tool like sed.
 >
 > http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-
 > trail&database=gcc&pr=5416
 >