Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pyuxv.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxv!cim1
From: cim1@pyuxv.UUCP (G. Bogatko)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Microsoft 3.0 compiler -W? option
Message-ID: <164@pyuxv.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 10:27:15 EST
Article-I.D.: pyuxv.164
Posted: Fri Dec 13 10:27:15 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Dec-85 08:13:17 EST
Organization: AGS Computers
Lines: 18

A while ago I posted a warning about using the -W option on the command
line.

A friend of mine just walked in the room with a line like the following:

x = pow(x,y) / z;

it ran clean on UNIX, it bombed on Microsoft 3.0 with:

	floating point error: stack underflow.

The option line included "-W3".

Folks, DON'T TRUST THIS OPTION.  Floating point manouvers SCREW UP!!!!!
It causes vital assembly code lines to VANISH!!! (I don't remember what
lines exactly, and I can't be bothered to dig them up.  Trust me.)  

ARRGGGGG!!!!