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Re: Runtime error woes [message #55063 is a reply to message #55060]

Mon, 30 July 2007 05:54

Mort Canty
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Registered: March 2003

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kuyper schrieb:

>
> Is the underlying hardware the same? If a different kind of chip is
> handling the floating point math on your desktop than is handling it
> on your laptop, that could be the source of the differences. If could
> as minor as a tiny difference in the accuracy with which certain
> operations are peformed, with that tiny difference being magnified
> into a error condition by poorly written code - or it could be an
> outright error in the FP implementation on one of the chips.
>

That sounds plausible. Desktop is an Acer model with Pentium 4, laptop
is an Asus with Centrino Duo. No idea if they handle floating point
math differently.

> It's much easier to diagnose such problems, when you know which
> particular values the variables have at the time the arithmetic error
> message is generated.
>

I'll try your suggestion to dump the variable values. Thanks for your help.

Mort

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		Re: Runtime error woes By: Mort Canty on Mon, 30 July 2007 10:39
		Re: Runtime error woes By: Jean H. on Mon, 30 July 2007 09:29
		Re: Runtime error woes By: Mort Canty on Mon, 30 July 2007 05:54
		Re: Runtime error woes By: James Kuyper on Mon, 30 July 2007 04:17
		Re: Runtime error woes By: Mort Canty on Mon, 30 July 2007 01:44
		Re: Runtime error woes By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 30 July 2007 01:06

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