Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!ico!rcd From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Help catching floating point exceptions Summary: different levels of recognition Message-ID: <1991Jun7.004034.11785@ico.isc.com> Date: 7 Jun 91 00:40:34 GMT References: <1991May27.213751.24223@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1991Jun6.033716.10920@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO Lines: 31 jsalter@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com responds to beddini@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Robert A Beddini)...several exchanges with about the same tone, here's one: Beddini: > >We eventually purchased a 530 and are pleased with its speed on *PRODUCTION* > >calculations. However it is still not being used for major code development, > >and its use in this capacity will be limited until IBM recognizes the need > >for user conveniences (necessities) such as FPP traps as a compiler > >options/defaults. Salter: > We've recognized this need. We recognized this before release, as noted > above, but because of time-to-market pressures, ...[etc]... [cites evidence in header files that they know there's a problem] > The file proves we recognized the need a long time ago. The > implementation, of course, is not trivial... Looks to me like the issue in dispute is what it means to "recognize" a problem. Perhaps what Beddini is really saying is that he wants the problem "fixed", rather than just "recognized"? I can appreciate that the problem might be difficult to fix after the fact...but it *is* a fairly fundamental need. Seems odd that it would be something that must be added on a year or so later, as opposed to being designed in. -- Dick Dunn rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd Boulder, CO (303)449-2870 ...Simpler is better.