[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Sun Jul 2 17:56:38 EDT 2017


=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 7/2/2017 11:45 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> 
>> Fortran doesn't allow me to pitch an exception on integer overflow either,
>> does it?  I can do it on a float, but with integers I need to check explicitly
>> before every operation.
>
>I don't think the standard did/do.
>
>But on VMS sure.

I had not seen that before!  It is very, very cool!
Thanks to both of the people that pointed it out!
--scott

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