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Re: Some more fortran safe-ctype & cleanups
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: Some more fortran safe-ctype & cleanups
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 22:24:09 +0200
- CC: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <200110241600.MAA16739@caip.rutgers.edu> <20011024093026.C5686@codesourcery.com>
Zack Weinberg wrote:
> '\0' is in is_nvspace because we decided it made the most sense to
> treat it as whitespace. It's a bit risky to add that to the set used
> by Fortran without making sure that this won't break anything else.
Kaveh, I'd like to second this. Fortran is rather peculiar in its
interpretation of source text (think: 80-column punch card). Craig
probably arrived at the code as it is after much experimentation (and
complaints ;-) Please only change it to something that has *exactly*
the same semantics ....
Thanks,
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