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Using and Porting GNU Fortran

15.3.27 Really Ugly Character Assignments

An option such as `-fugly-char' should be provided to allow

REAL*8 A1 DATA A1 / '12345678' /

and:

REAL*8 A1 A1 = 'ABCDEFGH'