fno-backslash not available in gfortran

[FX Coudert]

> There's quite a lot of fortran 77 code that will not work without the
> equivalent of -fno-backslash. Is it going to be implemented in gfortran in
> the near future?

It's easy to fix; in fact, after receiving your mail, I've written the 
patch needed for this option. With it:

$ cat backslash.f
       print *, '1\n2'
       end
$ gfortran backslash.f && ./a.out
  1
2
$ gfortran backslash.f -fno-backslash && ./a.out
  1\n2
$ gfortran backslash.f -fbackslash && ./a.out
  1
2


I need to add the documentation for it, a testcase too; when this is 
done, I'll submit it for review, so it will be incorporated in a few 
days. I think we can call that "the near future" ;-)

FX