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From: jkorpela@vipunen.hut.fi (Jukka Korpela)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: lint like program for fortran
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Date: 12 May 91 10:46:05 GMT
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In-Reply-To: gbastin@x102c.ess.harris.com's message of 10 May 91 12:39:33 GMT

A few comments on FORCHEK:
- It looks nice and useful in general.
- It is written in C but not entirely ANSI C conformantly.
- Its portability is decreased by the use of such global names in the
  program that there are serious difficulties if the recognition length
  for global names is, say, 6 or 8. (I tried to port it into VM/XA.)
- It ignores the fact that in FORTRAN blanks are insignificant. This is
  documented feature but not necessarily desirable.