exception handling in FORTRAN

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

texbell!killer!utacfd!rwn at cs.utexas.edu (Ralph Noack) writes:
>We too were shocked that flt pt exceptions were not being taken.

You shouldn't have been:  that's what the IEEE 754 standard _specifies_.
The standard recommends that there should be some way of enabling
exceptions, but it is not required.  Sun followed the letter of the
standard.  (I agree that it is a pain.)