Hi Christian, Daniel and all, I'm also interested in portable binary archive format. Unfortunately, I have no time to extend the example provided for integers within 1.33. Do you mean that in the 1.35 unreleased work you have at hand, you can handle floats (32bits) and doubles (64bits) using underlying IEEE standard and aware of endianess? regards frc
5. If speed is less important for your application (than for ours) consider using text archives instead. those are designed for portability.
note that for very critical applications (computations very sensitive to precision) for the last digit in text-serialized doubles is unsafe. -- Francois Mauger Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Caen et Universite de Caen ENSICAEN - 6, Boulevard du Marechal Juin, 14050 CAEN Cedex, FRANCE e-mail: mauger@lpccaen.in2p3.fr tel.: (0/+33) 2 31 45 25 12 fax: (0/+33) 2 31 45 25 49