[comp.sys.apollo] SR9.7 Possible Bug

DERSTAD@CIM-VAX.HONEYWELL.COM (08/19/88)

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