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In article <13998@sequent.UUCP> jjb@sequent.UUCP (Jeff Berkowitz) writes:
>The now-defunct Culler machine was originally going to "just do the
>wrong thing" on unaligned accesses.  Fairly late in design, logic
>was added to trap on unaligned accesses.  As I recall, one of the
>arguments for adding that logic was that it was difficult
>(impossible?) to achieve F77 validation on a machine which "just
>did the wrong thing".  Can anyone comment on this?  Does the F77
>validation suite actually force oddly aligned access and expect
>them to work?  Is there a qualified F77 for the RT PC?
>-- 

There is no x3j3 equivalent of Ada validation. There are suites which
purport to validate a compiler, but they have no x3j3, ansi, or iso
standing. 


Keith H. Bierman
It's Not My Fault ---- I Voted for Bill & Opus