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Re: GCSE store motion
>
> No, but it'll help any and all Fortran programs that have to be compiled
> with -fno-automatic because they were developed on systems where local
> variables in subroutines kept their values from call to call.
>
> Given the number of times my advice on comp.lang.fortran of compiling
> with -fno-automatic actually `stopped the bug', I'd think that's rather
> important ...
If it has it's own -f flag, perhaps that flag could default to true
for fortran (or fortran + -fno-automatic) and false elsewhere. Though
it'd be nice to verify that it actually helps such programs first.
-Tim