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

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:29:16PM +0200, Maik Beckmann wrote:
> Tim Prince schrieb am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 um 19:57:
> > Maik Beckmann wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there a command line switch to force gfortran to use the current gcc
> > > cpp?
> >
> > I haven't heard of any such thing.  Why would anyone support it?  You
> > could simply use the gcc pre-processing without -traditional, if you don't
> > care about breaking Fortran string concatenation.
> 
> If all compilers would behave behave the same way it wouldn't an issue.  But 
> having to maintain something just for gfortran is just inconvenient.
> 
> ifort and sunf95 both take 
>   -fpp
> to preprocess a source file while gfortran wants 
>  -cpp
> ifort and sunf95 both use the standard cpp 
>   #define TO_STR(EXPR) #EXPR
> while gfortran wants
>   #define TO_STR(EXPR) "EXPR"
> 
> No show stoppers at all, but inconvenient.
> 

Have you asked Intel and Sun to support the gfortran
syntax and feature?

-- 
Steve