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Now I am wondering how VMS handled this. Do VMS programs just get no chance to recover from arithmetic faults? That is, do whatever the VMS equivalent is to mas
by somat 6mo ago
Now I am wondering how VMS handled this. Do VMS programs just get no chance to recover from arithmetic faults? That is, do whatever the VMS equivalent is to masking sigfpe in unix.
Was there ever a source drop for VMS on vax? Probably hard to impossable to figure out if not
- throawayonthe 6mo agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20171028043200/http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/wizard/wiz_2993.html https://web.archive.org/web/20171028043200/http://h41379.www... apparently some at some point?
- ch_123 6mo agoVMS provided some functionality to convert floating point faults into traps: https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-openvms-rtl-library-lib-manual/#d0e60513 https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-openvms-rtl-library-lib-man...
- elch 6mo agohttps://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/microfiche/vms-source-listings/AH-BT13A-SE__VAX-VMS_V4.0_SRC_LST_MCRF/AH-BT13A-SE__VAX-VMS_V4.0_SRC_LST_MCRF/095__SYS/029__EXCEPTION.LIS__bw.pdf https://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/microfiche/vms-source-list...