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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