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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Question: Pascal for the ST?
Message-ID: <1991May6.201701.4853@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 6 May 91 20:17:01 GMT
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In article <1991May3.134817.17871@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes:
>As a sub note, all Prospero compilers (C, Pascal, FORTRAN) can share object 
>files, and have the same touchy feelie front end.  Also, the C and Pascal 
>(I do not know about the FORTRAN) are ANSI. 
Prospero Fortran is ANSI X3.9-1978 compatible.  The arithmetic is IEEE format,
but doesn't work like IEEE says it should - the fraction seems to have one
less bit than it ought, and there are some other quirks.  I discovered this
by running PARANOIA, which I got from NETLIB.  A limitation I encountered
was that a program unit couldn't have more than 32k of instruction space.
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