From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c4cb2c432feebd9d X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,c4cb2c432feebd9d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid1094ba,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.volia.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.cw.net!cw.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!unknown!not-for-mail From: Thomas Koenig Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Checking for Undefined [was Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications] Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 20:30:42 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Private site Sender: ig25@meiner.onlinehome.de Message-ID: References: <1hfv5wb.1x4ab1tbdzk7eN%nospam@see.signature> NNTP-Posting-Host: p50862858.dip0.t-ipconnect.de X-Trace: online.de 1148581842 988 80.134.40.88 (25 May 2006 18:30:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 18:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4467 comp.lang.fortran:10251 Date: 2006-05-25T20:30:42+02:00 List-Id: Gordon Sande wrote: >They even set INTENT ( IN ) variables to undefined so a >user can set the undefined attribute/(bit configuration) themselves >if they are doing an internal storeage allocation themselves. Neat! I don't understand this. Do you mean INTENT (OUT)? >Initialization to signaling NANs if a quick and effective approximation. >Needs help from first the loader and then the storeage allocator. >Until you have used it and it has saved a goodly block of time it >is a feature that many just shrug and say "That's nice". They do not >realize what they are missing. Oh, yes. I have used this feature on MIPS (-trapuv), and have sorely missed it on the compilers I've used since.