From: glen herrmannsfeldt on
William Clodius <wclodius(a)lost-alamos.pet> wrote:
> fj <francois.jacq(a)irsn.fr> wrote:
(snip)

>> A source file is NEVER produced by a compiler like ifort or gfortran
>> but only by a text editor !
>> <snip>

> Not always. I have inherited code from a co-worker with that takes as
> input two files, one a list of gas phase chemical reactions, the other a
> list of chemical species, and generates a file containing the Fortran
> code that implements the numerical solution for their gas phase
> reactions for the species of interest.

Well, that isn't produced by the compiler, but by a compiled program.

Macro processors and interpreters can produce source programs, though.

-- glen