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From: DERSTAD@CIM-VAX.HONEYWELL.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: SR9.7 Possible Bug
Message-ID: <880819105053.00001857081@cim-vax.HONEYWELL.COM>
Date: 19 Aug 88 15:50:53 GMT
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We are just beginning to regression test our software against SR9.7,
and have had several applications, written by different people 
a thousand miles apart, start producing "floating point operand
errors".  These errors disappear on a node which has been loaded
with some sort of patch tape, but the (limited) info I have seen
on the patch tape does not identify any patches likely to correct
this sort of behaviour, which I think is probably due to an error
in the run-time libraries.  (These are all Pascal applications).

Has anyone else seen this or heard anything from Apollo on this?
The patch tape seems to have corrected the problem, but I need
more information so that I can tell our customers that they
need patch so-and-so to ensure proper operation.

Dave Erstad

Honeywell SSED
(612) 541-2234

DERSTAD@cim-vax.honeywell.com