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From: roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Roth)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Cheating on the types
Message-ID: <6749@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 2 Apr 91 12:43:48 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.195732.15376@appmag.com> <1991Mar29.014537.23918@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Roth)
Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD
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In article <1991Mar29.014537.23918@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) writes:
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>Also from the mists of time:  I think on CDC 6600/7600, an integer was
>represented using only the fraction of a floating point number, with the
>exponent zero.  If a number with zero exponent was acted upon by a floating
>point instruction, or a number with non-zero exponent was acted upon by an
>integer instruction, interrupts happened.  But I may have this wrong.
>
Facts are correct, but the code in question WOULD work correctly.

BUT: we Fortraners are forever moving ancient code from machine to machine.
When do YOU give up on code and rewrite from scratch?
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Peter N Roth      roth@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil
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