Neil N. Carlson wrote:
> Is this discussed in the Fortran standard?
Yes.
.....Strange, but every compiler
Compiler writers, when the Standard doesn't prescribe an error, are free
to do whatever seems right ... which usually translates into following
some popular leader (as consumers ask for it to behave "like a Foo" for
whatever Foo has become the most popular mindshare leader (VAX was the
most common answer for a couple of decades, even after the hw had grown
less popular, it retained mindshare).
> I've tried, save one...
>
...other poster pointing to LIA....
As far as I know, hardly any (well, none as far as I know) compiler or
runtime writers look to LIA for their inspiration. IEEE754 or 854
Standards, or the the current 754R effort do seem to get looked at.
But I can hardly claim to know all compiler writers ;>
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