preprocessor token "#" doesn't work in gfortran as in gcc, intel-fortran or sun-fortran compiler

[Tobias Schlüter]

Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:58:02PM +0200, Maik Beckmann wrote:
>> Tim Prince schrieb am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 um 18:42:
>>> As far as I know, gfortran, and later versions of g77, invoke tradcpp, the
>>> same as 'gcc -traditional' does.  tradcpp doesn't support C99 or C++, and
>>> doesn't break Fortran string concatenation.  In order to support
>>> installations where the default gnu Fortran version is likely to be broken
>>> (or the name of it varies), some of my customers use the 'gcc -traditional
>>> -x c' command to pre-process .F
>>> The gcc maintainers decided to support the distinctions by providing the
>>> separate tradcpp.
>> Is there a command line switch to force gfortran to use the current gcc cpp?
>>
> 
> No.  See cpp.c.

One could do the preprocessing and compilation in two steps, i.e.
   gcc -E source.F -o source.f
   gfortran source.f
should do what you want.

Cheers,
- Tobi