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Re: -frecord-marker


On Tue, Jul 25, 2006, Steve Kargl wrote:
> No, it is a horrible suggestion.  Perhaps, you missed "It  could also be
> troublesome if not thought through carefully.  You wouldn't want a file
> half 32 bit markers, half 64, and part intel"  You've just made writing
> and maintaining the runtime library more complicated.
> 
> Put these 2 subroutines into separate files.
...

Isn't this just asking for trouble anyway? I would never have expected
it to work in the first place. I'm sure that there are plenty of things
that can be done using existing compilation options that cause all hell
to break loose. That's no justification for removing them.

> Is it too difficult to compile the short Fortran program 
> that Bud Davis posted to convert 64-bit recorder markers
> to 32-bit markers?

When your datasets are a terrabyte each, then yes it is.

> We'll also have the ISO_C_BINDING feature at some point in
> the near future.  You guessed it.  You can use this feature to
> write a conversion utility.

Conversion just isn't a practical solution.

Keith.


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