[Patch, fortran] PR19262 more than thirty-nine continuation lines should issue a std-warn

[Manfred Schwarb]

...
> I'm really not good in interpreting the fortran standards, but I can
> imagine that the "shall not" is not meant to be a restriction to the
> compiler, but to the user who wants to write standards conforming code. 
> I really can not imagine any reasons why a standard should not allow
> a compiler to accept more continuation lines as an extension.
> 
> In the past, Richard wrote an email about what's meant to be a
> requirement to the user and what's a requirement to the compiler, but
> I can't find it at the moment, and I really don't know if it's 
> appropriate in this context.

With some googling I found
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2005-08/msg00166.html
that's probably the thing I had in mind (second paragraph, starting
with "Second. ". 
But again, I really have no idea whether it's appropiate in this case.

Manfred 

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