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Re: [Patch, fortran] PR28585: Add Fortran 2003 NEW_LINE intrinsic function
Steve Kargl wrote:
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 07:29:18AM +0200, FX Coudert wrote:
I'm a bit worried that not all systems supported by gfortran use \n
as newline. E.g., i386-pc-mingw32 uses \n\r.
Yes, that is a concern. We can probably ping Richard Maine for
the requirements of the standard. Without looking, I would guess
the standard simple says that new_line() provides a single
CHARACTER. On input/output the processor is permitted to translate
a \n to \r\n, but new_line() itself must return \n.
I had thought about suggesting such a translation on input/output, but
unfortunately there are probably lots of programs in existence that
assume that \n is not translated to \r\n, and so that would really be a
regression.
My conclusion is that the standard NEW_LINE intrinsic is relatively
useless, as a result of this; it simply is not defined as a function
that reliably returns the system representation of a new line.
- Brooks