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Re: Floating point error [message #34725]

Mon, 14 April 2003 19:31

Craig Markwardt
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Kenneth Bowman <k-bowman@null.tamu.edu> writes:
> After a great deal of further mucking around, this appears to be a
> version-dependent bogus error message. It only happens on the Linux
> version 5.6.
...
> % Program caused arithmetic error: Floating illegal operand

Sad as it is, I basically ignore the floating point error messages
that come out of IDL. Their use is close to nil.

Better to check any values that need to be finite and enforce that
constraint, than to rely on error messages that may or may not come
from IDL.

Craig

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