floating point exception crashes

• To: alpha-osf-managers@xxxxxxxx
• Subject: floating point exception crashes
• From: HUTJESRW <HUTJESRW@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 09:37:33 MET+02
• Organization: Department of Biology, RUGroningen
• Priority: normal

On our Alpha 3000-300 running OSF1.3 we get quite some crashes 
because of 'floating point overflows' (probably division by zero) in 
our own atmospheric simulation model. The system then completely 
reboots, and leaves often huge core dumps (upto 100 MB). We plan to 
install the SPHINX image processing package. But the people who 
ported it to the Alpha also reported rather frequent 'floating point 
overflows', with subsequent crashes.

Is this a known problem ? Can it be solved ? That my program hangs 
OK, I got to solve that my self, but what worries me is that the 
system reboots.

Any help is appreciated and will be summarised.




Ronald W.A. Hutjes
Dept of Physical Geography
Kerklaan 30
9751 NN  Haren
The Netherlands

phone: +31-50-634795
fax:   +31-50-635205
Pmail: r.w.a.hutjes@xxxxxxxxxxx
Email: fgb01@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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