[gfortran,patch] Ignore byte order mark at start of file

[Brooks Moses]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:32:10PM +0200, FX Coudert wrote:
> > I can't seem to figure out why it works, but it seems to.  As such,  
> > unless there's some particular reason to expect that it will always  
> > work correctly (and that includes not doing bizarre things with non- 
> > ASCII characters in string literals, for instance), then we should  
> > probably issue a warning if a UTF-16 BOM is found.
> 
> This point is unrelated, in my view, to the BOM issue. (At least  
> because I have easily found how to fix the BOM thing, while I have no  
> idea how the encoding is handled, if it is at all.)

Unrelated, save that a BOM is how one knows the file is UTF.  Though
the warning can certainly be a separate patch some other day.  :)

> > Does the testsuite harness know what to do with a "dg-do compile"  
> > that's in UTF-16 format?
> 
> Yes: all these testcases are run and checked. I don't know how it  
> does it :)

I think it defaults to dg-do compile unless it finds something that says
something else.  Does changing it to dg-do run cause them to run?

- Brooks