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Re: 1e38 limit? [message #65326 is a reply to message #65323]

Fri, 27 February 2009 09:39

Chris[6]
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The overflow, by itself, shouldn't result in an infinite process - idl
should just complain about floating point overflow maybe.

What COULD be happening is that you have a loop in your code. You are
using a floating point value as the loop variable, and incrementing it
by a number much smaller than itself. When that happens, there isn't
enough precision to store the difference between the numbers before
and after increment, and the loop variable stays the same forever.
It's actually a floating point UNDERFLOW.

Maybe? any floating point loops?

chris

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		Re: 1e38 limit? By: paulartcoelho on Fri, 27 February 2009 10:39
		Re: 1e38 limit? By: Chris[6] on Fri, 27 February 2009 09:39
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