IRIXv3.3.1 FORTRAN I/O BUG

Calvin H. Vu calvin at dinkum.wpd.sgi.com
Tue Dec 4 05:19:25 AEST 1990


In <9012030315.AA02428 at frodo.Physics.McGill.CA> loki at physics.mcgill.ca (Loki Jorgenson Rm421) writes:

| I believe I've discovered an Iris Fortran i/o bug.  It only occurs when 
| printing out numbers smaller than E-100, so it only happens with double 
| precision (real*8).  If the number is smaller than 1.E-100 the I/O routine 
| 'forgets' to print the letter E.  
	I traced this problem back to the version we had 3 years ago.
As far as I know it probably exists in the original Sys V Fortran runtime
I/O but somehow nobody has run into it yet so you are the first person who
reported it.

Thanks for letting us know,

- calvin
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