[G95-develop] Should g77 accept file extensions .f90 and .f95 ?

[Toon Moene]

Toon Moene wrote:

> Saturday, 2nd of September, 2000, I wrote:

> A few days ago, Charlie Zender wrote on gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org:

> > It is often useful to preprocess fortran code with a C-preprocessor.
> > It would be really great if the preprocessor component of GCC were
> > modified to treat *.F90 (Fortran 90) files exactly as it treats *.F
> > files.

However, contrary to my assumptions, g77 doesn't recognise the .f90 or
.F90 extension, so I summed up the alternatives I could implement.

Subsequently, the majority agreed with my number 3 alternative:

> 3. Or should g77 refrain from even purporting it has anything to do
>    with Fortran 90/95 and simply refuse to recognise extensions
>    .f90 and .f95 given that GNU Fortran 95 is well under way ?

so I'll refrain from changing g77 in this regard.

Sorry, Charlie.

Regards,

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