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Re: g77: portable unformatted files
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- To: Emilio Silva <emilio at MIT dot EDU>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:45:40 +0100
- Subject: Re: g77: portable unformatted files
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, NL
- References: <3ED3C24A-61DE-11D8-A059-000393491692@mit.edu>
Emilio Silva wrote:
I would like to propose an extension to create (more) portable
unformatted files, as explained in
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77/Portable-Unformatted-Files.html
"g77 has no facility for exchanging unformatted files with systems
using different number formats--even differing only in endianness (byte
order)--or written by other compilers. Some compilers provide
facilities at least for doing byte-swapping during unformatted I/O."
Unfortunately, g77 is on its last legs. Unless something drastic
happens, GCC 3.4 will be the last version to contain g77. As 3.4
already is in bug-fixing mode, I do not feel qualified to introduce such
a large change.
I'm sorry.
[ You're free, of course, to develop, test and distribute your own
version of GCC 3.4-with-g77-convert, but it won't be the official
FSF one ]
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