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Re: 0.0/0.0 --> Segmentation Fault [message #8361]

Mon, 03 March 1997 00:00

Keith Refson
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Registered: March 1997

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Alex Schuster <alex@rosa.mpin-koeln.mpg.de> writes:

> IDL> print, 0.0 / 0.0
> % Program caused arithmetic error: Floating illegal operand
> % Detected at $MAIN$
> Segmentation Fault
> -->
>
> This seems to happen with Solaris 2.5 only, not with 2.4.

And you are running on a Sparc Ultra, right? Since FPS (our IDL
reseller) don't really seem to be aware that this is a known problem
and that there is a patch for it, I'll chip in with the answer.
4.0.1c fixes it.

It took me more than a week of phone calls to FPS and to Sun to find
this out, only to find out

a) That IDL is officially not supported on any version of Solaris
after 2.3. (!)

b) They have a fix in the form of 4.0.1c anyway.

It seems a rather inconsistent position to take, but who am I, a mere
user to complain?

Keith Refson

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		Re: 0.0/0.0 --> Segmentation Fault By: Keith Refson on Mon, 03 March 1997 00:00
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