preprocessor/5416: Need flag for cpp to allow fortran comments

[Neil Booth]

The following reply was made to PR preprocessor/5416; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk>
To: Matt Fago <fago@caltech.edu>
Cc: neil@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org,
	nobody@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: preprocessor/5416: Need flag for cpp to allow fortran comments
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 07:28:49 +0000

 Matt Fago wrote:-
 
 > Using cpp with g77 is abusing cpp? I hope not!
 
 Of course it is, Fortran is not C, or a C-family language.
 
 > I can certainly use sed, but I had hoped it would not be necessary
 > in the future. BTW, suggesting that people use c-style comments in
 > Fortran code seems silly, and would be difficult in my case even
 > with sed.
 
 I didn't suggest using C-style comments.
 
 Neil.