Reading 32bit unformatted files in 64bit systems

Janne Blomqvist blomqvist.janne@gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 12:45:00 GMT 2011


2011/12/30 Arjen Markus <arjen.markus895@gmail.com>:
> endianness is a property of the machine on which you run the program.
> It is (most of the time) beyond the
> control of the program itself. The Intel Fortran compiler offers an
> extension to read/write files with a different
> endianness than that of the machine. In this case it would be very
> useful to have that in gfortran too (but it
> remains an extension).

Do you mean that the existing methods of using a specifier for the
OPEN statement, an environment variable, or a compile-time option, are
not enough for you? What more do you need?

-- 
Janne Blomqvist



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