Packing/unpacking binary data in C - doubles, 64 bits

[Bill McGonigle]

On 09/10/2009 02:54 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> What techniques, best practices,
> de facto standards, popular libraries, etc., exist for this sort of
> thing?

MPI was already mentioned:


http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=supported-systems#heterogeneous-support

those guys are performance freaks.  Here's a new library for working
with its data types:


http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:Di0F4vRzSb8J:www.mcs.anl.gov/uploads/cels/papers/P1635.pdf+mpi+1.3+data+types&hl=en&gl=us

-Bill


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