Absoft Fortran 77 extensions

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  • Coverity Fortran Syntax Analysis folds all input to uppercase. The Absoft compiler supports folding to uppercase, to lowercase or treat input case sensitive.
  • Absoft has compiler options to specify the kind of free form source code. Coverity Fortran Syntax Analysis also supports various kinds of free form input but you have to specify this in the configuration file. Default is the Fortran 90 format.
  • Absoft has a compiler option to support C-string backslash editing. For Coverity Fortran Syntax Analysis you have to enable extension 42 in the configuration file.
  • Absoft has compiler options to support conditional compilation lines beginning with ’D’,... ’d’, ’X’, or ’x’. In the supplied configuration file for Coverity Fortran Syntax Analysis only conditional lines beginning with ’D’, or ’d’ are enabled. To accept also lines beginning with ’X’, or ’x’ you must enable extension 3 in the configuration file which, however, accepts conditional lines beginning with any letter.
  • Coverity Fortran Syntax Analysis supports DO WHILE.. ENDDO, but not WHILE.. ENDDO.
  • Coverity Fortran Syntax Analysis does not support the following keywords: GLOBAL, INLINE, VALUE, GLOBAL DEFINE, REPEAT.