Flint has a number of bugs and shortcomings, in addition to those described
above. Flint is intended to be run on a FORTRAN that a compiler would
accept. During the early stages of program development, a good FORTRAN compiler
is a far better tool to find programming problems. Flint bugs and
shortcomings include:
- IMPLICIT statements are ignored.
- EQUIVALENCE statements are rcudely treated.
- A number of archaic, poor or non-standard FORTRAN features are not
recognized. These include the ASSIGN statement and assigned GOTO, alternate
return statements, PAUSE, ENTRY, DECODE, ENCODE, many
archaic forms of i/o statements, NAMELIST and many VMS extensions.
- While BYTE, INTEGER*2, INTEGER*4, REAL*4, REAL*8, etc statements are
recognized, a warning message is generated, Flint otherwise treats these
variables as either standard INTEGERs or REALs.
- Columns 72 to 80 of an input line (if they are present) are assumed
to be part of the FORTRAN statement, rather than a comment field. Flint
generates a warning if a line contains more than 72 characters.
Flint recognizes the following extensions, and digests them without
complaint:
- DO/ENDDO and DOWHILE/ENDDO constructs.
- INCLUDE statements.
- Lower case characters are considered equivalent to upper case. Tabs
are treated as if they were the equivalent number of spaces. The full
printable ascii character set can appear in character strings.
- A comment line starting with the hash character (#).
- The INTENT statement (see the section on Interface Definition Libraries).
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