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From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
To: Hassan Aurag <aurag@cae.com>
Cc: GCC Help Mailing List <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Endianess and Fortran
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 15:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF574AA.DCE48080@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1005925116.21445.6.camel@l0553lnx>

Hassan Aurag wrote:

>  This is new to me. What are the things to watch when dealing with
> porting Fortran programs from old big-endian machines to Linux on Intel?
> 
>  I heard EQUIVALENCE statements are a problem. What are the other things
> to watch for?
> 
>  Any help or pointer to Fortran related issues is welcome.

Well, it's hard to enumerate all the possible problems with switching to
a system with a different endianness than your original one.

There's one problem we *always* hear about:  It is not possible to read
unformatted files produced on your old system on your new system.

So transfer any needed data by writing it out as formatted data.

Hope this helps,

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      reply	other threads:[~2001-11-16 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-06  8:03 Hassan Aurag
2001-11-06 15:09 ` Toon Moene [this message]

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