Support for ENCODE & DECODE

[Tim Prince]

Patrick C. Rose wrote:
> It would be of considerable help to some of us if gfortran would 
> process the ENCODE & DECODE statements.  I realize you're trying to be 
> Fortran-95 compliant and not Fortran-4, but some of my older code is 
> littered with them, and to re-write all of it would be dicey at best.
As I recall, there were at least 2 major incompatible variants of 
ENCODE/DECODE.  If your code is dicey, and hasn't been maintained for 30 
years, attempting to support it directly in gfortran won't necessarily 
correct that.