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

[Blaise A Bourdin]

Damn it! Considering that fixed form was declared obsolete 10 years ago, and if this is the only incompatibility, is it too much to ask that fortran people replace a "C" in first col with a "!" (which is also compatible with fixed form)?

Blaise 


On Nov 7, 2013, at 8:42 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Blaise A Bourdin <bourdin at lsu.edu> writes:
> 
>> I haven’t use fixed-form in a long time, but isn’t free-form a
>> superset of fixed-form? Are there situation where a fixed form code
>> cannot be compiled as free form source code?
> 
> $ cat foo.f
>      program foo
> c     a silly comment
>      end program
> $ gfortran foo.f
> $ gfortran -ffree-form foo.f 
> foo.f:2:
> 
> c     a silly comment
> 1
> Error: Unclassifiable statement at (1)

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