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Re: Extra bytes in OSX vs classic binaries

on 6/25/04 3:55 PM, Drew McCormack at email@hidden wrote:

>
> On Jun 25, 2004, at 5:47 PM, Joe Koski wrote:
>
>> Please excuse me for piggy-backing, but I have a similar issue for
>> which
>> list members may know the answer.
>>
>> I have a Fortran 77 code that I compile with g77-3.5. The program can
>> write
>> binary output files for reading by a post-processor (GMV). The
>> post-processor is C code, probably compiled with gcc. Apparently the
>> g77
>> binary file format differs from the gcc binary file format as
>> described in
>> this thread. As a result the C language post-processor can't read the
>> g77
>> binary output, and I'm forced to use ASCII instead. As far as I know,
>> the
>> post-processor won't read .hdf files, either.
>>
>> My question: are there compiler switches for g77 that will allow the
>> g77
>> binary output files to be compatible with gcc, similar to the -N3
>> Absoft
>> option described below? Any tricks? How about running the particular
>> g77
>> output routine through f2c and then compiling it with gcc?
>>
> One option is to write the data to a fortran direct access file, with a
> record length of 1. This is basically the same as writing in C. No
> extra record information will appear in the file, only the data you
> write.
>
> Drew
>
Nice trick! If it works, I owe you the network equivalent of a beer. I'll
give it a try and report back to the list.

Joe Koski
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