[ILUG] Binary files

[Michael Turley]

I changed a sizeof(int) to sizeof(short) in
fread(&offset, sizeof(int),1,fp); and that did the
trick. 

Now I've got the program working on Linux but I still
can't get it working on AIX. Anyone know anything
about type bytesizes on AIX?. Maybe someone knows a
short program to show the size in bytes of a variable
type (I would like to compare shorts, ints and longs
on Linux and AIX)?

--- "Brady, Padraig" <Padraig.Brady at compaq.com> wrote:
> I don't know what format the .bin files are,
> but if they're binary and correspond to structures
> in the code, then you will have to mess around
> a bit with the packing of the structure (alignment
> and ordering).
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Turley [mailto:samplecode at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: 06 January 2000 15:03
> > To: ilug at linux.ie
> > Subject: [ILUG] Binary files
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am porting some windows C code to Linux for
> > Apache/PHP. I have managed to compile and link the
> > relevant algs iand all of them are working as
> planned
> > with the exception of one. 
> > 
> > This program relies on .bin files for calculating
> > mortgage protection premiums (yawn). I am getting
> > spurious responses from the program and I am
> wondering
> > if .bin files are portable or not. The .bin files
> were
> > generated on windows and I was kind of guessing
> that
> > they might be portable in the same way that ascii
> > files are.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> > 
> > 
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