diff --git a/src/future.f90 b/src/future.f90
index 1eb82e91e..354a522e4 100644
--- a/src/future.f90
+++ b/src/future.f90
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ module future
 
 contains
 
-#if defined(__GFORTRAN__) &&  __GNUC__ < 9 || __INTEL_COMPILER < 1800
+#if defined(__GFORTRAN__) &&  __GNUC__<9 || __INTEL_COMPILER<1800
 !--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 !> @brief substitute for the findloc intrinsic (only for integer, dimension(:) at the moment)
 !--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------