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- From: bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor)
- Subject: Re: Division by 0 crashes OS2/2.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.131306.13751@tc.cornell.edu>
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- References: <1992Sep2.163508.17347@tc.cornell.edu> <21529@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <92Sep03.032755.21494@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:13:06 GMT
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- In article <92Sep03.032755.21494@acs.ucalgary.ca> bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens) writes:
- >In article <21529@optima.cs.arizona.edu> shack@cs.arizona.edu (David Shackelford) writes:
- >>In article <1992Sep2.163508.17347@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >>>The following short program compiled with MS-FORTRAN 5.0 with
- >>>coprocessor crashes OS2 Ver. 2 on my machine:
- >>
- >>Sounds interesting. Are you compiling to a DOS program and running
- >>it in a VDM, or an OS/2 program? If OS/2, is it with the 1.x or 2.0
- >>libraries? Please post more information...
- >
- >If he uses MS-Fortran, it got to be a DOS program.
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- No, MS-Fortran 5.0 is both a real & protected mode product. I think
- that 5.1 merely adds Windows functionality that does not exist in 5.0.
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- >
- >I tried with Ms Fortran 5.1 and with Watcom fortran 386 V9.
- >
- >Both return an answer 1.00000000.
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- It that is true, it is really bad - I would not trust such
- a compiler for any serious numerical work.
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- >
- >Luc B
- >
- >
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- Dov
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