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From: khb@road.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - Advanced Languages - Floating Point Group )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: little problem
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Date: 12 Sep 89 02:28:37 GMT
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In article <375@unmvax.unm.edu> brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd) writes:

> discussion of how 1=3


>And this is one of those cases which is not likely to be caught even
>by a system that does quite a bit of error checking, since the error
>is "across" two program units.

Lahey's PC fortran has a mode which makes this code work as one
expects (viz. 1=1).

Sun Fortran seems to protect 1 as well.


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