New attribute "infrequent"?

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Mon Aug 27 15:16:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> Joe Buck writes:

Joe> Originally Fortran had a FREQUENCY statement.  While I can't find definite
Joe> confirmation, the widely reported story is that IBM implemented it
Joe> backwards in their Fortran II compiler, and no one noticed for quite some
Joe> time.  So it got dropped.

	Yes, IBM's Fortran compiler of the time accidentally implemented
the statement with the reverse effect.  *No* USER ever reported the
problem.  It only was discovered by one of the compiler developers much
later.

David



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