exception handling in FORTRAN
Richard A. O'Keefe
quintus!ok at sun.com
Tue Dec 20 21:08:06 AEST 1988
texbell!killer!utacfd!rwn at cs.utexas.edu (Ralph Noack) writes:
>We too were shocked that flt pt exceptions were not being taken.
You shouldn't have been: that's what the IEEE 754 standard _specifies_.
The standard recommends that there should be some way of enabling
exceptions, but it is not required. Sun followed the letter of the
standard. (I agree that it is a pain.)
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