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Re: big-endian for Pentium Pro
I wrote:
>> Well, no. And unfortunately, to do it right means changes
>> throughout both the compiler and the run-time library, which makes
> Are you referring to gcc's assumptions on the endianness
> of registers and memory?
No, the issue is whether there's a compile time option to g77 to
have the libf2c run time library write unformatted (i.e. binary)
data in the byte sex opposite to the native one. Several Fortran
compilers support such an option, but g77 does not. The problem
with this option is that it's use assumes that - apart from the
endianness problem - the layout of unformatted files is the same
between OS's / compilers, which is not always the case.
Cheers,
Toon.