| Re: Annoying but (seemingly) harmless warning [message #60180] |
Tue, 06 May 2008 09:01  |
Brian Larsen
Messages: 270
Registered: June 2006
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> % Program caused arithmetic error: Floating underflow
I get this same message on startup also with seemingly no effect.
I am on IDL 6.4.1 on OSX 10.5.2.
Here is my startup info
[balarsen@larsenlaptop]~> idl
IDL Version 6.4.1, Mac OS X (darwin i386 m32). (c) 2007, ITT Visual
Information Solutions
Installation number:
Licensed for use by: Boston University
% Program caused arithmetic error: Floating underflow
% Compiled module: JOURNAL_UNIQUE.
% Compiled module: BIN_DATE.
The journal_unique and Bin_date are in my .idl_startup and make a
journal at startup with the date and time, that then records every IDL
session I do. Mostly just get deleted but sometimes handy.
Cheers,
Brian
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Brian Larsen
Boston University
Center for Space Physics
http://people.bu.edu/balarsen/Home/IDL
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| Re: Annoying but (seemingly) harmless warning [message #60302 is a reply to message #60180] |
Wed, 07 May 2008 08:34  |
Michael Galloy
Messages: 1114
Registered: April 2006
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On May 6, 4:38 pm, "Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bow...@null.edu> wrote:
> In article <C445F023.199%j...@cornell.edu>,
> Jonathan Joseph <j...@cornell.edu> wrote:
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>> I just got a new mac (macbook pro running leopard 10.5.2) and installed IDL
>> 7.0. Up til now, I've worked on sun solaris and windows pc, and have not
>> upgraded to 7.0 yet on those machines.
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>> Anyway, when I start IDL and open a graphics window (IDL> window) or run any
>> application that creates a graphics window, I get the following error
>> message:
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>> % Program caused arithmetic error: Floating underflow
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>> But after that everything seems to work properly. This message only appears
>> once, the first time a window is created and never again during the IDL
>> session - so it's not really too obtrusive. Though so far I've only done
>> some cursory tests on this installation to make sure things work.
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>> I Just wanted to mention it in case something really isn't working that's
>> going to come back and bite me later.
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>> Anyone else seen this problem?
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>> Thanks.
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>> -Jonathan
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> I think this may be due to X-Windows bugs. (Apple made major changes
> to the X distribution with 10.5). I reported this to ITTVIS some time
> back. Not sure what the outcome was.
Also, I've been trying to keep up-to-date with XQuartz:
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki
This helps a lot from the original Leopard release, but is becoming
less important as many of the X11 changes have been rolled into
10.5.2.
Mike
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www.michaelgalloy.com
Tech-X Corporation
Software Developer II
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