fno-backslash not available in gfortran

[Andrew Pinski]

On Jun 21, 2005, at 12:07 PM, Richard E Maine wrote:

>
> Backslash processing in the C preprocessor I can understand. 
> Presumably people who use the C preprocessor expect at least some 
> C-like behaviors. But I find it nothing short of baroque to inflict 
> this strange C convention on purely Fortran code by default. And the 
> thought that there isn't even an option to turn it off... Well, that 
> would be a show-stopper for lots of codes. I hadn't gotten that far in 
> porting my codes (stopped by other bugs that are in the bug database), 
> but if I got that far, I doubt I'd try to work around undefeatable C 
> backslash processing - I'd just say that the compiler wasn't yet 
> suitable for use on my codes.

Just to let people know, the option to turn it off was applied and will 
be there
for gfortran 4.0.1 which should be released once the gcc summit is over 
in the next
couple of weeks.  There are non fortran bugs blocking the release right 
now.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski