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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (R. Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.usg,net.lang.f77
Subject: weird f77 bug solved....
Message-ID: <459@burl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-May-84 15:31:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: burl.459
Posted: Fri May  4 15:31:29 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 5-May-84 02:20:56 EDT
Organization: AT&T Technologies; Burlington, NC
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Earlier today, I posted a 'bug' in f77, here is the gist:

	do 100 d = .....	/* this worked fine */
	do 100 d2 = .....	/* this generated a syntax error */

The reason for this is the f77 extension which allows a double
precision exponent, which is a multiplier base 10.  In other words,
'1d2' equates to '100' (1 * 10^2).  f77, on the statement above,
was squeezing out the space between the '100' and the 'd2' and
parsing it as a double precision constant '100d2'; thus the
syntax error.

Thanks to mhuxj!presley for a quick and accurate answer to this
problem,
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