line is a non-comment line of important code!
@emph{Note:} The @samp{-traditional} and @samp{-undef} flags are supplied
-to @code{cpp} by default, to avoid unpleasant surprises.
+to @code{cpp} by default, to help avoid unpleasant surprises.
@xref{Preprocessor Options,,Options Controlling the Preprocessor,
gcc,Using and Porting GNU CC}.
This means that ANSI C preprocessor features (such as the @samp{#}
tests, use, for example, @samp{#ifdef __linux__} rather than @samp{#ifdef linux}.
Use the @samp{-v} option to see exactly how the preprocessor is invoked.
+@cindex /*
+Unfortunately, the @samp{-traditional} flag will not avoid an error from
+anything that @code{cpp} sees as an unterminated C comment, such as:
+@smallexample
+C Some Fortran compilers accept /* as starting
+C an inline comment.
+@end smallexample
+@xref{Trailing Comment}.
+
The following options that affect overall processing are recognized
by the @code{g77} and @code{gcc} commands in a GNU Fortran installation:
@node Trailing Comment
@section Trailing Comment
+@cindex trailing comment
+@cindex comment, trailing
+@cindex /*
@code{g77} supports use of @samp{/*} to start a trailing
comment.
In the GNU Fortran language, @samp{!} is used for this purpose.
@node Debug Line
@section Debug Line
@cindex debug line
+@cindex comment line, debug
Use of @samp{D} or @samp{d} as the first character (column 1) of
a source line denotes a debug line.