Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!modcomp!joe
From: joe@modcomp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran vs C for computations
Message-ID: <11800005@modcomp>
Date: 8 Sep 88 21:44:00 GMT
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Nf-From: modcomp.UUCP!joe    Sep  8 17:44:00 1988



J.Vermaseren of T68@nikhefh.hep.nl writes [slightly edited]:

>There is another much more annoying feature of C that restricts its floating
>point handling to the 'playing only' level. In the second edition of K&R it
>is explained that the standard response of a floating point operation
>to an irregularity is returning special values.

C under Unix, at least, lets the user specify that floating point exceptions
are to generate a signal.  This, of course, doesn't help fortran users, nor
users of C on non-unix operating systems.
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