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* `<>` as synonym for `.NE.` and `/=`
* `$` and `@` as legal characters in names
* Initialization in type declaration statements using `/values/`
* Saved variables without explicit or default initializers are zero initialized.
* Saved variables without explicit or default initializers are zero initialized,
except for implicitly saved scalar variables from the main program that are
kept on the stack by flang and are not zero initialized. It is not advised to
rely on this extension in new code.
* In a saved entity of a type with a default initializer, components without default
values are zero initialized.
* Kind specification with `*`, e.g. `REAL*4`
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