From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20709 invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2002 02:46:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-prs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-prs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 20695 invoked by uid 71); 18 Jan 2002 02:46:02 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:46:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20020118024602.20694.qmail@sources.redhat.com> To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, From: Matt Fago Subject: Re: preprocessor/5416: Need flag for cpp to allow fortran comments Reply-To: Matt Fago X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00635.txt.bz2 List-Id: The following reply was made to PR preprocessor/5416; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Matt Fago 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 >