[petsc-dev] make all PETSc Fortran examples modern freeform?

Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Nov 7 08:44:10 CST 2013


On Thu, 7 Nov 2013, Blaise A Bourdin wrote:

> I haven’t use fixed-form in a long time, but isn’t free-form a superset of fixed-form?

In essence all current petsc code complies with this.

[i.e its syntactically corect both free form and fixed form]

> Are there situation where a fixed form code cannot be compiled as free form source code?

Not sure if its the fixed/free form issue - [its perhaps f77 vs f90] - some
external packages use 'C' for comment - which some f90 compilers barf on.

Satish


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