Proposed patch for 4 byte unformatted record delimiters

Andrew Pinski pinskia@physics.uc.edu
Sun Mar 12 14:18:00 GMT 2006


On Mar 12, 2006, at 5:26 AM, Rob Ratcliff wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> It's not just Intel that would need to change.
> Right now Intel, PG, SGI, Sun, Cray would all have to change
> their approach (so that unformatted files could be
> interchanged) not to mention all the legacy code already
> compiled with g77 and other "older" compilers
> would have to be recompiled.

It does not matter in general because unformatted input/output is
all compiler specific. If you have been using unformatted intput/ouput
between compilers, you have  been lucky this has worked.

-- Pinski



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