Re: -assume big_endian under g77?

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From: Dave Love
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 00:00

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>>>>> On 18 Oct 1995 02:06:56 -0400, ron@frog.maths.monash.edu.au (Dr Ron W Cresswell) said:

 Ron> Hi. I don't know if this is the right place to send this query, 

Probably not.

 Ron> Under g77, I can't seem to find any option which is the
 Ron> equivalent of telling the compiler that an unformatted binary
 Ron> file to be read by the program will be in 'big-endian' format,

There is no such facility.  I think it's on my TODO list in the
distribution but unlikely to get done at present.

 Ron> i.e. the exponent and matissa may be 'byteswapped'.
 Ron> I need this if I'm to plot cray output files under linux. Is
 Ron> such an option available? If so, what is it called?

I'm not sure it's that simple in this case.  I would investigate the
approaches oft discussed on comp.lang.fortran using an appropriate
library (e.g. XDR).

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