[Bug fortran/43078] gfortran: spurious warning of line truncation at col 72

[joseph at codesourcery dot com]

------- Comment #4 from joseph at codesourcery dot com  2010-02-16 12:09 -------
Subject: Re:  gfortran: spurious warning of line truncation
 at col 72

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, patrick dot wallace at stfc dot ac dot uk wrote:

> Mystery solved.  It is to do with line endings.  When gfortran sees
> a file with DOS line endings it interprets the CR and LF as separate
> characters.  This is why demonstrating the effect is so slippery.
> 
> I guess gfortran is within its rights to work this way, and only
> accept Unix line endings.  But I would argue that this is unhelpful,
> and that it would be better to make gfortran detect the condition
> and deal with it sympathetically.

I think all the front ends should behave like the C-family ones in this 
regard, and accept all of CR, LF and CRLF as meaning end-of-line 
regardless of the host OS.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43078