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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