------- Comment #1 from jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-01-22 04:52 ------- See scanner.c line 1067. This is deliberate at the moment. The question now is, do we want to leave this alone or not? Does the fortran standard define this in some particuloar way? I am looking. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30532