On Wednesday 04 May 2005 16:40, Biagio Lucini wrote: > On Wednesday 04 May 2005 13.34, Paul Brook wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 May 2005 13:15, Biagio Lucini wrote > > > > > I have understood that at the moment some misbehaviour of the > > > front-end prevents it, but I don't quite understand what the problem > > > is. Can anyone shed some light? > > > > Basically the fortran parser does trial-and-error pattern matching, and > > can end up parsing a single comment many times. > > Is this a permanent feature or something that can be removed? The reason > why I am asking is that I would like to experiment with this front-end a > little bit.
It's more of an implementation wart than a feature. I don't think anyone's particularly attached to our current parser. If it needs significant changes to support OpenMP then I've no real objections, as long as it still works :-) Paul
