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To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: FORTRAN_HACK macro?
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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 23:24:00 -0000
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Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> writes:
> Does anybody know where/why/when/if this macro is used?
> 
> It's in dwarf2read.c. It has been there since the dawn of times. I am
> thinking of killing it.

I don't know what it's for.  If no FORTRAN experts emerge from the
gloom to explain it, I say, kill it: if it's been #ifdef'd out since
1996, it can't hurt much, and since we have no idea what it does, we
can't maintain it anyway.