| Annoying but (seemingly) harmless warning [message #60181] |
Tue, 06 May 2008 08:23  |
JJ
Messages: 36
Registered: January 2007
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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.
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:
% Program caused arithmetic error: Floating underflow
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.
I Just wanted to mention it in case something really isn't working that's
going to come back and bite me later.
Anyone else seen this problem?
Thanks.
-Jonathan
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| Re: Annoying but (seemingly) harmless warning [message #60285 is a reply to message #60181] |
Thu, 08 May 2008 03:39  |
cmoller
Messages: 1
Registered: May 2008
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On May 6, 11:23 am, Jonathan Joseph <j...@cornell.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> % Program caused arithmetic error: Floating underflow
>
> 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.
>
> I Just wanted to mention it in case something really isn't working that's
> going to come back and bite me later.
>
> Anyone else seen this problem?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Jonathan
Hi Jonathan,
I have the same system and also get this error only under the
conditions you describe. I have not experienced any obvious problems
so it appears to be benign.
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| Re: Annoying but (seemingly) harmless warning [message #60305 is a reply to message #60181] |
Tue, 06 May 2008 15:38 |
Kenneth P. Bowman
Messages: 585
Registered: May 2000
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In article <C445F023.199%jj21@cornell.edu>,
Jonathan Joseph <jj21@cornell.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> % Program caused arithmetic error: Floating underflow
>
> 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.
>
> I Just wanted to mention it in case something really isn't working that's
> going to come back and bite me later.
>
> Anyone else seen this problem?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Jonathan
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.
Ken
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