(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4899) [ukfortran] Comment on a comment on the WG5 letterballot on N1947

Van Snyder Van.Snyder
Wed Jan 16 14:04:29 EST 2013


On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 11:07 -0600, Bill Long wrote:
> In recent memory, I've only encountered one case of harmful integer 
> overflow, 

There was the Ariane 5 crash, which was rather expensive.

True, the code was written in Ada, not Fortran, and the integer overflow
was caught, but ignored.





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