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    `g77' supports use of `/*' to start a trailing comment.  In the GNU
 Fortran language, `!' is used for this purpose.
 
    `/*' is not in the GNU Fortran language because the use of `/*' in a
 program might suggest to some readers that a block, not trailing,
 comment is started (and thus ended by `*/', not end of line), since
 that is the meaning of `/*' in C.
 
    Also, such readers might think they can use `//' to start a trailing
 comment as an alternative to `/*', but `//' already denotes
 concatenation, and such a "comment" might actually result in a program
 that compiles without error (though it would likely behave incorrectly).
 

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