Re: quiz for Sequential_IO Read

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 03/09/2017 à 22:10, Frank Buss a écrit :
>> In every language, the format of a binary file is known only to the
>> compiler (I remember having been warned about this when I learned
>> FORTRAN - a long time ago); the purpose of these files is to save data,
>> then reread them from the same program, or at least the same language
>> with the same compiler.
> 
> This is nonsense. There are a lot of binary file specifications and of
> course it should be possible to read and write these files, independent
> of the programming language or the compiler. Imagine files like PNG
> would only work, if you write/read them with a program, which was
> compiled with exact the same compiler.

I was talking about binary files defined by the language; if you use an
external binary file (like .PNG), you need to use streams, whose format
is well defined.

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