------- Comment #5 from dir at lanl dot gov 2005-12-08 14:16 ------- Your are likely correct - it probability is not in the standard, but for the first 15 years of FORTRAN, keypunches and card readers were the only way to create and submit a program and they always pad to 80 characters - by definition a line of FORTRAN was 80 character - since a card reader was the only way to get a program to the computer. If the modern text editors, that mostly truncate as they please had been around - the padding requirement would have been in the standard. Actually, I am surprized that FORTRAN 77 did not add that requirement to the standard.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25271
