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- From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
- Subject: Re: 2.0 fails miserably in the PARANOIA program ( was: Division by 0 crashes OS2/2.0 )
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- Message-ID: <92Sep14.002410.30685@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 00:24:10 GMT
- References: <1992Sep11.225553.5638@tc.cornell.edu> <92Sep12.023824.23909@acs.ucalgary.ca> <1992Sep13.210932.322@tc.cornell.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep13.210932.322@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >In article <92Sep12.023824.23909@acs.ucalgary.ca> bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens) writes:
- >
- >>I reran the dpara check under OS/2 2.0 on my machine with those flags
- >>-FPi87 -G2 -AL -Od, and surprise surprise, MS Fortran 5.1 came out
- >>with only one SERIOUS DEFECT (after milestone 160), and completed the
- >>test.
- >>
- >>But, BTW, for 1./0., the answer was, as before, 1. And interestingly,
- >>Paranoia did not flag that as being a problem.
- >>
- >>(Dov: I could uuencode my dpara.exe and e-mail it to you. That would
- >>let us establish whether the difference we note is between 5.0 and
- >>5.1 or between your and my machine.)
- >
- >Well, I checked the executable of Luc (thanks Luc!) on my machine
- >and it gave the same results as my executable: It crashed 2.0, but
- >1.3 passes with 1 FLAW. I could not check under DOS, since the executable
- >was not bound. I tried to bind it with my libraries, but it failed
- >to run under DOS with a runtime error.
- >
- >So, this establishes that the difference in not caused by the difference
- >in compiler versions.
-
- However, on my machine, it completes the test with 1 SERIOUS DEFECT
- under OS/2 2.0. So, it's not a difference between 1.3 and 2.0, it's
- a difference between 1.3 and 2.0 that affects Dov's computer and
- not mine!
-
- Luc
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