<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">
    <tr>
        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/119243>119243</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            [flang] Allow "\" as a continuation character in fixed format
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            flang
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Assignees</th>
      <td>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          psteinfeld
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    Intel, NAG, and GNU allow it.  It causes problems with nvfortran and IBM.

Here's a test program:
```
cat cont.F
        integer aaa
        aa\
a=1
 if (aaa/=1)print *,'e'
        print *,'pass'
        end

flang cont.F
error: Could not scan cont.F
./cont.F:2:11: error: bad character ('\') in Fortran token
          aa\
            ^
./cont.F:3:1: warning: Character in fixed-form label field must be a digit
  a=1
 ^
```
</pre>
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