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- Subject: Re: Paranoia and OS/2 2.0
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:52:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.043630.24988@news.Hawaii.Edu> tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen) writes:
- >I FTPd the "paranoia" math testing program from research.att.com and gave
- >it try on my OS/2 2.0 machine. I have both Microsoft FORTRAN 5.1 and
- >WATCOM F77/386 9.01b (that is, the B-level patches have been applied).
- >
- >First of all, neither the double nor single precision version crashes
- >OS/2, regardless of which compiler was used. I wonder why others have
- >experienced crashes.
- >
- >Second, WATCOM passes with flying colors on the double precision test.
- >On the single precision test, as well as both precisions with the Microsoft
- >compiler, the program is unable to properly determine the radix, so the
- >slew of defect messages that follow are presumably consequences of this.
- >It looks to me like the program is fooled into thinking there are more
- >significant digits than there really are, because of the wrong radix, so
- >many of the defect messages seem to be triggered by inappropriate
- >comparisons.
- >
- >Third, I didn't try either compiler with optimization disabled.
-
- Did you split the file for the MS-FORTRAN compiler ? The .OBJ file
- may be bigger than 1 segment. On the other hand, since you you left
- optimization on the file is below 1 segment.
-
- Dov
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