Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!uwvax!rhesus!uwmacc!jwp From: jwp@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.lang.c Subject: Incorrect arithmetic: more info Message-ID: <1574@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 19:53:24 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1574 Posted: Mon Jun 1 19:53:24 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 02:49:59 EDT Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 11 Keywords: vax ultrix 4.3bsd Xref: mnetor comp.unix.wizards:2554 comp.lang.c:2294 A followup to my posting about the flakey arithmetic: I just ran the program on a MicroVAX running Ultrix, and the subtraction was performed correctly. So the status is: MicroVAX/4.3BSD: bad MicroVAX/Ultrix: good VAX 780: good Could it be the C compiler? -- Jeff Percival (jwp@salvax1)