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From: joe@petsd.UUCP (Joe Orost)
Newsgroups: pe.cust.bugs
Subject: Re: P-E and float?
Message-ID: <475@petsd.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 85 02:41:55 GMT
Date-Received: 22 Mar 85 17:58:56 GMT
Reply-To: joe@petsd.UUCP (Joseph M. Orost)
Organization: Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls, N.J.
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In-Reply-To: <9195@brl-tgr.ARPA>

I wanted to share this response with you all.  If you can provide more input
for this guy, please send him email (..!ucbvax!hugh@BRL-BMD.ARPA).

In article <9195@brl-tgr.ARPA> you write:
>	We have been given access to a Perkin-Elmer running the
>Wollogong(sp?) implementation of unix and have found that the simplest
>versions of programs written in both FORTRAN and C don't work.  
>I think that I have isolated the problem:  my conclusion is that
>this implementation doesn't have{_ float in C and doesn't have
>REAL in FORTRAN.  When I declare my variables as double or DOUBLE
>PRECISION in C or FORTRAN, respectively, the programs work; declared
>as float or REAL, they don't work.
>
>	Is this standard for this implemetation?  Or should I tell
>the system administrator to get to work straightening out this problem?

We too had this problem a long time ago.  I think it turned out to be a C
compiler bug.  I think this was fixed right after unix was brought up on our
machine (before it was released as EDITION VII), but like I said this was a
long time ago.

I suggest you get a copy of the latest version of EDITION VII from
Perkin-Elmer.  This is basically the Wollengong port with lots of bugs fixed
(V7 unix).  Or you can order XELOS if you want a port of System Vr2.

					regards,
					joe

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