Writing safe code: Java? (was: Re: EMERGENCY: new remote root

From: Art Werschulz (agwat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 21 1998 - 06:55:33 PDT

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    Hi.
    
    This may not be a problem for people doing systems programming, but
    Java's floating point has come under attack lately as being unsafe.
    
    There's a long article by well-known numerical analysis gadfly Bill
    Kahan on the topic.  For details, check out
    http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf.
    
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