Re: [C/Fortran] writing "big" binary files issue...

Steve Lionel wrote:
(snip)

> For many people, compilers are something that "if ain't broke, don't fix
it".
> If you're not having problems, then there's rarely a compelling reason
to
> upgrade a compiler.  But if you ARE having problems, or are looking for
a new
> feature, then you may well find that an upgrade is required.

> I might say that this problem is confined to commercial products such as
> ifort, but no, we often see in this group people writing in with
complaints
> about old versions of gfortran and g95 (or even g77!)

Maybe more often with non-commercial products.  With commercial products,
one might feel that, having paid for it, the company owes them a properly
working product.  The work of installing the new version is part of
getting what one paid for.

-- glen