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From: verena@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Verena Meiser Umar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Fortran bug
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 1 Mar 90 18:59:41 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 63, message 3

We are having a problem with division by zero when running  Fortran
programs.  The Sun3 architecture does not report the occurrence of such a
division at all, and the Sun4 architecture gives the following warning  -
BUT not until the end of the run:

Warning: the following IEEE floating-point arithmetic exceptions occurred
in this program and were never cleared: Inexact;  Division by Zero;
Invalid Operand;

It would be VERY helpful to have a program terminate execution IMMEDIATELY
when a division by zero occurrs, with some message indicating where the
program terminated.

Any help on this would be appreciated.  Please reply directly to me since
I don't regularly read Sun-Spots.

Verena Umar
verena@vuse.vanderbilt.edu