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

[agw () DSM FORDHAM EDU (Art Werschulz)]

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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