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[Bug libfortran/25271] gfortran fails to pad lines in format statements to 72 characters.
- From: "dir at lanl dot gov" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 8 Dec 2005 14:16:42 -0000
- Subject: [Bug libfortran/25271] gfortran fails to pad lines in format statements to 72 characters.
- References: <bug-25271-10129@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
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------- Comment #5 from dir at lanl dot gov 2005-12-08 14:16 -------
Your are likely correct - it probability is not in the standard, but for the
first 15 years of FORTRAN, keypunches and card readers were the only way to
create and submit a program and they always pad to 80 characters - by
definition a line of FORTRAN was 80 character - since a card reader was the
only way to get a program to the computer. If the modern text editors, that
mostly truncate as they please had been around - the padding requirement would
have been in the standard. Actually, I am surprized that FORTRAN 77 did not add
that requirement to the standard.
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