Writing Big Endian Files With G77

[Toon Moene]

Harald Dunkel wrote:

> I have stumbled over a portability problem on writing binary
> files. The Digital Research Fortran compiler seems to support
> something like
> 
>         CONVERT='BIG_ENDIAN'
> 
> within an OPEN statement. Is there something similar for g77?

Unfortunately, no.

> Or is this bad code?

Well, it's non-standard; other than that, it has a well defined meaning
for those compilers that support it.

Kind regards,

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