https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67250
kargl at gcc dot gnu.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED CC| |kargl at gcc dot gnu.org Resolution|--- |INVALID Severity|blocker |normal --- Comment #5 from kargl at gcc dot gnu.org --- See the documenation where it explicitly states: Many Fortran compilers including GNU Fortran allow passing the source code through a C preprocessor (CPP; sometimes also called the Fortran preprocessor, FPP) to allow for conditional compilation. In the case of GNU Fortran, this is the GNU C Preprocessor in the traditional mode. % ~/work/5/bin/cpp -I. -E -traditional-cpp u2.F gives the same result as gfortran -I. -E u2.F. Obvious workaround cpp -I. -E file.F > file.f90 gfortran -c file.f90