[7338] in bugtraq
Writing safe code: Java? (was: Re: EMERGENCY: new remote root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Art Werschulz)
Tue Jul 21 17:16:39 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:55:33 -0400
Reply-To: Art Werschulz <agw@DSM.FORDHAM.EDU>
From: Art Werschulz <agw@DSM.FORDHAM.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199807170304.XAA04663@jekyll.piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com)
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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