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- From: gerardo@ferris.cray.com (Gerardo Cisneros)
- Subject: Re: CRAY-YMP language constants != machine constants.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.102956.1936@walter.cray.com>
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <1992Aug27.160828.18574@tamsun.tamu.edu> <392@yak.COM>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 10:29:55 CDT
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- In article <392@yak.COM> tpd6908@yak.COM (Tom Dickens) writes:
- >Just thought I would inject some personal experience on a Y-MP (Unicos 6.1).
- >I have an application with mixed C and FORTRAN. I needed some constants
- >such as min/max float values and found them in a C include file. I then
- >copied these numbers into a FORTRAN routine, compiled, and got out-of-range
- >compiler errors. Doing the same thing in C worked OK.
- >
- >I still do not have an explination from Cray why this happened.
-
- I tried e-mailing Mr. Dickens, but the message bounced:
- ----- Transcript of session follows -----
- 550 <tpd6908@yak.com>... Host unknown
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- Could you e-mail me the shortest possible Fortran and C programs exhibiting
- this behavior?
-
- I'm interested in knowing what is going on.
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- Anything I said sound like an opinion? Then it's no one's but my own.
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