[Bug fortran/52846] [F2008] Support submodules - part 2/3 - redux

[Douglas B Rupp]

VMS hasn't had a 3 character filename extension limit since before 
VAX/VMS version 4.0 was released in 1984.

On 07/16/2015 01:41 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 05:08:50PM +0200, Paul Richard Thomas wrote:
>>
>> Please find attached a new version of the patch that fixes the
>> inconsistency with the standard, pointed out by Reinhold. It is weird
>> but a read the appropriate part of the standard several times and
>> simply did not pick up the critical information :-)
>>
>> Note that the delimiter used for submodule file name is '@', whereas
>> the internal identifiers is '.'.
>>
>> I have added a procedure to cleanup submodules produced by the
>> testsuite and implemented them in submodule_[1-8].f90. Submodule_8.f90
>> tests the resolution of the spurious error found by Reinhold.
>>
>> Booststraps and regtests on FC_21/x86_64 - OK for trunk?
>>
>
> Patch looks ok to me.  One item I wonder if we need to care
> about is old filesytems (FAT) or operating systems (VMS) with
> a 3 character file extension limit.
>