Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 16:24:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Kimball <Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM> To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Call for Fortran assistance Message-ID: <199710152124.QAA28947@compound.east.sun.com>
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> Our second design threw the data through a FIFO, but Fortran has funny
> formatting requirements for sequential-access data that have stymied
> us.
Generally, there is a header word for each binary record in a
sequential-access file indicating how many bytes are in the record.
Thus
write(7) [1:5], 2.0d0*[1:5]
(f90 syntax used for conciseness) results in a file containing binary
data representing the values { 60, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2.0, 4.0, 6.0, 8.0, 10.0 }
(assuming real*8.)
> We've offered to write a Fortran-callable C procedure that can manage
> reading the FIFO, but they don't use procedures much (!) and want an
> all-fortran solution.
Now you're talking about a mentally defective customer. I can't fix
that:-)
What is the platform? You should be able to use shared memory, if
there are fortran bindings to libc available. Or you could just
provide a library of fortran bindings written in C and not tell them
about it. It sound like they're clueless enough not to be able to
tell the difference.
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