------- Additional Comments From jblomqvi at cc dot hut dot fi 2005-09-11 12:09 ------- Bud Davis is back and working on the pluggable record markers patch. Expect it to be completed and committed within a few weeks.
There is no simple solution that is right for all situations. Gfortran uses 64-bit record markers by default since we want compatibility between LP32 and LP64 bit platforms (which incidentally g77 doesn't provide), and we want to support records bigger than 2 GB. There has been some discussion about a byteswapio patch, but nothing has been done. Patches are welcome, of course. And, I would hardly classify the bug as "critical". If you want portable binary io you're probably better off using a library such as netcdf anyway. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23814
