Bud Davis <bdavis@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Toon Moene wrote: > >> Now an interesting question is how we are going to treat this with >> gfortran: On the one hand we can do it right (use one record length >> size on 32-bit and 64-bit systems), but then people on 64-bit systems >> can't read their g77 generated unformatted files - or we could do the >> same as libf2c and be stuck with the above problem. >> >> On the third hand, I have received requests for 64-bit record lengths >> on either system so that larger-than-2-Gbyte records are possible. >> > > > as of right now, the gfortran approach is like this: > > each sequential, unformatted record is prefixed with a byte count, of > type off_t. off_t is a 64 bit number on FreeBSD and is a 32 bit number > on Linux (without using the LFS routines). This is wrong! On all 64-bit Linux platforms, off_t is a 64-bit number. x86 is not the whole world. Let's go for off64_t and break the format... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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