------- Additional Comments From rrr6399 at futuretek dot com 2005-09-11 13:24 ------- I believe it really is critical since myself and many others who may use gfortran need to interoperate with data generated by legacy codes on the same system that were compiled with g77 or on other systems (Sun, SGI) compiled with their native f77 or f90/f95 compilers. Some of the codes are proprietary, many are from other third parties, it isn't really feasible to force them to use another binary file library. Plus, I've been working with unformatted FORTRAN files for 15 years and this is the first time I've had this type of issue with the structure of an unformatted file.
So given the current situtation, I'll have to write a format convertor for unformatted data from any gfortran code to the "standard" g77 format in order to interoperate. I would've thought that the FORTRAN spec would've covered this kind of thing. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23814
