g77: portable unformatted files

[Zack Weinberg]

Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> writes:

> 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.

Toon, do you think a feature like this would be appropriate for the
f95 compiler and runtime that is now under development?

zw