Why !DEC$ directives is not ignoring in Linux?

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#1

Why !DEC$ directives is not ignoring in Linux?
I got errors on !DEC$ directives created for Compaq Visual Fortran. Example of program:

subroutine hello
!DEC$ATTRIBUTES C, reference, alias:’_hello’::hello

write(,) “Hello, world!”
return

end subroutine

#2

Hi Voropinov,

DEC directives are suppose to be treated as comments on Linux but a bug in early versions of 7.0 caused a syntax error. This issue was fixed as of the 7.0-3 release.

Best regards,
Mat

%cat tmp.f
       subroutine hello
!DEC$ATTRIBUTES C, reference, alias:'_hello'::hello

       write(*,*) "Hello, world!"
       return

       end subroutine
% pgf90 tmp.f -c -V7.0-2 -Mfree
PGF90-S-0134-Illegal attribute - conflict with reference (tmp.f: 2)
  0 inform,   0 warnings,   1 severes, 0 fatal for hello
% pgf90 tmp.f -c -V7.0-3 -Mfree