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Re: PR fortran/23815: Add byte-swapping to gfortran
- From: François-Xavier Coudert <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>
- To: Thomas Koenig <Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de>
- Cc: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:59:28 +0100
- Subject: Re: PR fortran/23815: Add byte-swapping to gfortran
- References: <20051113231903.GA17662@meiner.onlinehome.de>
> Currently, there is only one method of supplying the information
> of which files to byte-swap, via a CONVERT keyword on an OPEN
> statement.
Is that an already existent extension used by other compilers (and
which)? I am *strongly* against new extensions: we can't complain that
we have to support lots of stupid extensions that didn't age well
*and* introduce new ones. Most compilers allow to do that with a
compile-time (or link-time) switch; that's what i have read on most
tutorials about this problem in scientific codes. We have such a
possibility (I introduced it, see how the -ffpe-trap option is
handled).
FX