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Re: [gofrtran] Fix PR 16465: accept -ffixed-line-length-72

Toon Moene wrote:
>>Done as below. There is a difference from g77: g77 pads strings on
>>continued lines, i.e.
>>      t = "STRING
>>     1TEST"
>>will let t have a bunch of spaces between "STRING" and "TEST". We don't
>>do this, but since we never did, and noone complained, I guess that's no
>>issue.
> 
> 
> Not so fast - this is fixed form code, so every line is 72 characters 
> long.  g77 was quite innovative in treating this right - IIRC, DEC 
> changed its compiler to match g77's behaviour.
> 

Hm, g77 came out sometime in the 90ies, and this feature was an
innovation? I can't believe many people rely on this.

I guess this counts as a complaint, I will update my patch.

- Tobi
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