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From: owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen)
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Subject: Re: ST/V Mac Float bugs (???)
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Date: 17 Mar 91 21:49:16 GMT
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In article <27e304de.5d50@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> mjohnson@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu
(Mark S. Johnson) writes:
>*** Smalltalk/V Mac version 1.1; MacOS 6.05 ***
>
>On my Mac SE/30 at work and my Mac+ at home, both of the Float
>instance methods "exponent" and "significand" cause 'Float invalid
>operation' walkbacks to appear. These are both primitive methods.
>
>Anyone know of a fix?
>Is a complete bug list for ST/V Mac available anywhere?
>
If you hear of a complete list of bugs, please post information.

I have nearly given up using ST/V Mac because of the bugs --
on a Mac Plus, you can't even divide an integer by a negative integer
without getting garbage. Some of these bugs have been known about
for well over a year, and no maintainance releases. Either they prefer
to support IBM platforms, or they don't support anything very well.

-- Russell
owen@raven.phys.washington.edu