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Re: trapping type conversion errors [message #22311 is a reply to message #22310]

Wed, 01 November 2000 14:45

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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Vapuser <vapuser@catspaw.jpl.nasa.gov> writes:

> I may be missing something, but are type conversion errors
> untrappable?

Apparently you trap these with ON_IOERROR. I just verified this with
your example. I think some other folks on the list know some caveats
about this; it may not always be foolproof.

As for math errors, yes I believe the only way to detect them is with
CHECK_MATH().

Craig

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