libf2c/configure.in change
Dave Love
d.love@dl.ac.uk
Mon Feb 16 14:21:00 GMT 1998
>>>>> "Toon" == Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> writes:
Toon> The problem with this change is that it is makes a compatibility
Toon> break on systems where sizeof(long) != sizeof(int), e.g. Alpha's.
Toon> With this change, people won't be able to read the sequential
Toon> unformatted files they created with previous versions of the
Toon> compiler.
Bother. I didn't look closely enough originally, and dmg's remark
suggested the opposite...
Toon> OTOH, with this change, they could freely exchange such
Toon> files with Digital Fortran on Digital UNIX.
Toon> I have no strong feeling either way, but if we're going to break
Toon> backwards compatibility, we should write that down in the release
Toon> notes.
I think it shouldn't go in. Pity I didn't spot that definition and
its import in the beginning. Breaking intra-platform compatibility
can wait until we do inter-platform portability of unformatted
files...
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