14 Oct
2001
14 Oct
'01
11:10 a.m.
On 13 Oct 2001, at 6:45, CBFalconer wrote:
My contention is that output is *ALWAYS* implicitly used, in order to report range errors, etc.
I don't see where that contention is supported by the ISO 7185 standard. Clearly, if the program-parameter-list is optional, it cannot be always required, else it would not be optional. Can you cite a statement from the standard to support your conclusion? The ISO standard is available from:
I think that CB's statement is only true for commandline systems. It could be different on some OSes where rangecheck errors are passed to the critical errorhandler of the os. The output then goes via the OSes output system.