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From: iris@interet.UUCP (User)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: A Question of Style
Message-ID: <13@interet.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 91 12:54:25 GMT
References: <12306@uwm.edu>
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Organization: Interet, Maplewood, NJ
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In article <12306@uwm.edu> jgd@uwm.edu writes:
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>I have recently run into a FORTRAN compiler that exhibits, to my
>mind, an annoying trait.  It complains voiciferously about statement
>numbers that are defined on statements, but are otherwise unreferenced.

No, you are not being picky; given that the message  is  not  individually
suppressable,  this _is_ extremely annoying behavior on the part of a com-
piler.

Unimportant and/or misleading compiler messages are, unfortunately, a fact
of  life  if  you support a system on multiple platforms.  My suggestions:
filter the compiler error output yourself and purchase  a  FORTRAN  source
code  analyzer.   We  have Quibus's FORWARN, SAIC's MAT and IPT's Fortran-
lint.   Fortran-lint has proved to be the most useful for us.    It allows
the  suppression  of  individual messages and will find bugs that the com-
piler misses entirely.
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