On 19 February 2016 at 20:22, Tim Prince wrote: > > > On 2/19/2016 2:30 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> On 19 February 2016 at 19:01, Nick Papior wrote: >>> Am I missing some point here? >>> I would have expected gcc/gfortran to use the _same_ preprocessing >>> utility as that provided in cpp? >> By default cpp works in C mode, but when invoked by the Fortran >> front-end it runs in a different mode. If you use cpp -x f97-cpp-input >> then it works in F95 mode, and you get results consistent with >> invoking gcc on a .f file, or invoking gfortran. >> >> I don't know why cpp treats C and Fortran input differently, but >> that's why you don't see what you expect. > The most obvious reason is that C99/c++ style pre-processing will break > the Fortran // operator (introduced in f77). It doesn't make sense if > the previous -traditional option for gcc was changed to f97-cpp-input. > Did you mean something like f77-cpp-input? Oops, yes, I meant -f95-cpp-input