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- From: rlcarr@animato.network23.com (Rich Carreiro)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: SAS C6.1 datecmp bug [Was: Re: Advice to SAS/C 5.10b users]
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- References: <BzD93n.JCo@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <BzEqDF.A5H@unx.sas.com> <1992Dec21.030843.16107@bohra.cpg.oz.au> <BzMJJB.84z@unx.sas.com>
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:48:53 EST
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- In article <BzMJJB.84z@unx.sas.com> jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper) writes:
- > Let's see... counting everyone at Commodore (U.S.), plus the people here, plus
- > the regular poeple we recruited through other means, we had about 70 - 100
- > people testing the heck out of 6.0. We all thought that was enough...
- >
- > Doug was correct. Out of all those people, things can still slip past... for
- > instance, one of the things fixed in 6.1 over 6.0 was not being able to compile
-
- Slip past? SLIP PAST? How on earth did the MATH=68881 bug manage to
- "slip past." Even though I admittedly don't use it much, I fail to
- comprehend how any decent testing procedure could have let that fall through
- the cracks. It wasn't like it was a subtle, hard-to-reproduce problem.
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