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Article #1109Paranoia and OS/2 2.0
From: Dave Tholen
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:36
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:36
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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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!news.hawaii.edu!galileo!tholen From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer Subject: Paranoia and OS/2 2.0 Message-ID: <1992Sep15.043630.24988@news.Hawaii.Edu> Date: 15 Sep 92 04:36:30 GMT Sender: root@news.Hawaii.Edu (News Service) Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu