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Re: Ug...Floating Illegal Operand...leave me alone! [message #25866 is a reply to message #25786]

Wed, 18 July 2001 08:55

Paul van Delst
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Registered: March 1997

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Timm Weitkamp wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Concerning Jeff's statement:
>
>> zeros. (I don't think there's a way to make IDL halt at the time the
>> error occurs, as it does with other errors.)
>
> I think that's true, but you can at least make IDL print out the error
> message at the moment where it occurs (instead of the default behavior
> of message output after program termination) by setting the system
> variable !EXCEPT to 2.

Excellent advice for finding those pesky "Floating Illegal Operand" errors. It allowed me
to find where floating underflows in the denominator of an expression were causing rather
largish errors... :o)

Be prepared for a lot of screen output though.

paulv

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		Ug...Floating Illegal Operand...leave me alone! By: randomguy79 on Tue, 17 July 2001 13:05
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