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## Option: source

-source=list
    This setting controls certain options about the form of the Fortran source code. The list consists of keywords separated by commas or colons. There are three special keywords: all to turn on all the options, none to turn them all off, and help to print the list of all the keywords with a brief explanation of each. If list is omitted, -source is equivalent to -source=all, and -nosource is equivalent to -source=none.

    For compatibility with previous versions of ftnchek, a numeric form of this setting is also accepted: the list is replaced by a number which is the sum of the numbers in parentheses beside the keywords in the following list. (The fixed and free options do not have numeric values.) The warning keywords with their meanings are as follows:

    fixed:
      Interpret the source as fixed form (with supported extensions such as exclamation mark for comments). Statements must be in columns 7 to 72 (unless the -cols setting has been used to change this), and blanks are not significant outside character context (but warned about under the -pretty option). This is the default mode unless the source file extension is .f90 or .F90. this option cannot be given together with -source=free.
    free:
      Interpret the source as free form. Statements may be anywhere in columns 1 to 132, comments can only begin with an exclamation mark, and blanks are required in some places such as between identifiers and keywords. This is the default mode if the source file extension is .f90 or .F90. This option cannot be given together with -source=fixed or -source=dec-tab
    dec-tab (1):
      Accept DEC-style tab-formatted source. A line beginning with an initial tab will be treated as a new statement line unless the character after the tab is a nonzero digit, in which case it is treated as a continuation line. The next column after the tab or continuation mark is taken as column 7. A warning will be given in the case where the line is a continuation, if -f77=dec-tab is in effect.
    vms-include (2):
      Accept VMS-style INCLUDE statements. These follow the normal syntax, but with the following additional features: (1) the file extension, if not given, defaults to the same as a normal source file extension; and (2) the option /LIST or /NOLIST can be appended to the include-file name, to control listing of its contents.
    unix-backslash (4):
      Handle UNIX-style backslash escapes in character strings. The escape sequence following the backslash will be evaluated according to the ANSI standard for strings in C: up to three digits signify an octal value, an x signifies the start of a hexadecimal constant, any of the letters a b f n r t signify special control codes, and any other character (including newline) signifies the character itself. When this source code option is in effect, a warning will be given if the -f77=backslash setting is specified.
      The default behavior is to treat the backslash like any other normal character, but a warning about portability will be generated if the -portability flag is set. Because of the fact that some compilers treat the backslash in a nonstandard way, it is possible for standard-conforming programs to be non-portable if they use the backslash character in strings.
      Since ftnchek does not do much with the interpreted string, it is seldom necessary to use this option. It is needed in order to avoid spurious warnings only if (a) the program being checked uses backslash to embed an apostrophe or quote mark in a string instead of using the standard mechanism of doubling the delimiter; (b) the backslash is used to escape the end-of-line in order to continue a string across multiple source lines; or (c) a PARAMETER definition uses an intrinsic string function such as LEN with such a string as argument, and that value is later used to define array dimensions, etc.
    param-implicit-type (8):
      Implicit typing of a parameter by the data type of the value assigned. Some non-standard compilers may allow the data type of the value to override the Fortran 77 default type of a parameter that is based on the first letter of the parameter name. This option only applies to PARAMETER statements of the standard form which has parentheses. A parameter that has been explicitly declared in a type statement prior to the PARAMETER statement is not affected by this option. A warning will be given under the -f77=param-implicit-type or -portability=param-implicit-type option.
      Note that this implicit typing is treated as equivalent to an explicit type declaration for the parameter. Therefore, if you use -makedcls=undeclared-only to generate declarations only of undeclared variables, these parameters will not be included.
    dec-param-standard-type (16):
      Follow the Fortran 77 rule for data typing of DEC Fortran style parameters. These are declared using a nonstandard form of the PARAMETER statement which lacks parentheses. According to DEC Fortran, parameters defined by this form of the statement have their data type given by the data type of the value assigned. Use this option to tell ftnchek not to follow this rule but instead to use the same rule as for standard PARAMETER statements. This option does not apply to PARAMETER statements of the standard form.

    By default, all these source code options are turned off, except for the vms-include option, which is on by default in the VMS version..

    See also: -f77, -include, -portability.

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