[patch,4.4, Fortran] PR34997 - Better error message for '$' in name

Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com
Wed Feb 20 15:05:00 GMT 2008


FX wrote:
>> 2008-02-20  Tobias Burnus  <burnus@net-b.de>
>>
>>         PR fortran/34997
>>         * match.c (gfc_match_name): Improve error message for '$'.
> 
> OK. Maybe a slight modification of the wording:
> 
>>  +      gfc_error ("Invalid character '$' at %C. Use -fdollar-ok to accept it");
> 
> "... Use -fdollar-ok to relax this constraint"?
> "... Use -fdollar-ok to allow it as an extension"?
> 
> (take with a pile of salt, coming from a non native english speaker.)

This is a bit weird.  C and C++ have the option "-f{no-}dollars-in-identifiers"
but FORTRAN has "-fdollar-ok" for exactly the same meaning?

Andrew.



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