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From: [e-mail] (Jim Napier)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: IEEE standards
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Date: 11 Nov 92 16:42:30 GMT
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I work for the mechanical engineering department at UCSD where the bulk of
our graduate level programming is in Fortran. We have an network of Suns
running the latest rev of Sun's Fortran compiler. This compiler conforms
to IEEE standards supposedly. I have 2 problems-

1) Many grads have spent years working on other systems that didn't support
   IEEE and don't know how to deal with the exceptions. Programming methods
   and old programs that have worked for them previously generate IEEE errors
   when compiled and run on the Suns.

2) Not being a Fortran progammer myself I have been unable to help them much
    except to point to man pages or hardcopy documentation that discusses
    IEEE standards and exceptions. Unfortunately none of the documentation does
   a sufficient job of presenting a proper beginner's overview.

Can anyone point me to references regarding how to write Fortran programs that
avoid IEEE errors or in general discuss what the IEEE requirements are and
exactly what some of the errors mean? Any personal experiences and caveats
are welcome also.

Thanks for any help.

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Jim Napier
Systems Administration
Applied Mechanics & Engineering Sciences Dept.
UC San Diego
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