------- Additional Comments From c dot lemmen at fz-juelich dot de 2005-08-12 13:22 ------- Subject: Re: No preprocessing option -cpp for gfortran
pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote: > ------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2005-08-12 > 12:32 ------- > (In reply to comment #3) > >>Now, testcase.f90 will be preprocessed. This should be reflected in the >>documentation (rather than having to dig around the 400 page gcc manual) > > > Why, specs files are not for the light hearted. Really they are designed for > GCC developers can quickly > test some spec changed without recompiling the whole compiler. > 1) I agree in principle, a user should not have to revert to using spec files. 2) However, a user *should* be able to tell the compiler that he/she wishes files with a certain extension to be preprocessed. Lots of other compilers (free and non-free) give the user this choice, below just four examples * pgf90 -Mpreprocess * nagf90 -fpp * g95 -cpp * xlf90 -qsuffix=cpp=f90 The -x option in gfortran is not really a good replacement as described in my comment #2. CL -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18428
