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    Source lines shorter than the applicable fixed-form length are
 treated as if they were padded with spaces to that length.  (None of
 this is relevant to source files written in free form.)
 
    This affects only continued character and Hollerith constants, and
 is a different interpretation than provided by some other popular
 compilers (although a bit more consistent with the traditional
 punched-card basis of Fortran and the way the Fortran standard
 expressed fixed source form).
 
    `g77' might someday offer an option to warn about cases where
 differences might be seen as a result of this treatment, and perhaps an
 option to specify the alternate behavior as well.
 
    Note that this padding cannot apply to lines that are effectively of
 infinite length--such lines are specified using command-line options
 like `-ffixed-line-length-none', for example.
 

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