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[patch, doc, committed] PR39670, about -fdollar-ok
- From: Daniel Franke <franke dot daniel at gmail dot com>
- To: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 19:44:21 +0200
- Subject: [patch, doc, committed] PR39670, about -fdollar-ok
2009-04-08 Daniel Franke <franke.daniel@gmail.com>
PR fortran/39670
* invoke.texi (fdollar-ok): Clarify limitations.
The patch was pre-approved by Steve in the PR.
Cheers
Daniel
Index: invoke.texi
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--- invoke.texi (revision 145538)
+++ invoke.texi (working copy)
@@ -256,7 +256,9 @@ the default width of @code{DOUBLE PRECIS
@cindex $
@cindex symbol names
@cindex character set
-Allow @samp{$} as a valid character in a symbol name.
+Allow @samp{$} as a valid non-first character in a symbol name. Symbols
+that start with @samp{$} are rejected since it is unclear which rules to
+apply to implicit typing as different vedors implement different rules.
@item -fbackslash
@opindex @code{backslash}