Fortran - Re: Checking for Undefined

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Re: Checking for Undefined

robin

2006-05-27, 7:02 pm

"Gordon Sande" <g.sande@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> The original WatFor for IBM/7040 used a hardware hack. They set bad parity
> but since they were a load and go system they had a symbol table around
> and did the lookup for you. When WatFor moved to IBM/360 the feature was so
> popular that they had to work hard to reproduce the feature.

It wouldn't have been "hard".
It only required the initialization of variables
with a certain value, e.g., for integers, -2**31
and for float, -HUGE(1.0) etc.
(An unlikely but feasible alternative : a bit map.)

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