Huge program, no interfaces, ugh

HI, I have this relatively huge program, about 40,000 lines in 183
source files.

I've found lots of errors in the source code caused by arguments that
don't match the subroutine dummy argument type.

But the compiler doesnt find many of these by itself, as none of the
subroutines had interfaces (to start out with). I'm building up
interfaces as I go along, but the task is error-prone-- if I forget to
add "use glue" to a subroutine, it will silently compile anyway and
generate bad calls.

It sure would be nice if the compiler required interfaces for every
called function or subroutine.

Is there some Fortran option to require these?

Thanks,

grg

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