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Re: Floating Point Error

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From: Mark Jacobs
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:41
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Can I bang my head against your wall? We are trying to help you, but if you won't accept that it could be a
fault with your program that only shows up on certain platforms under certain OS conditions, then you cannot
be helped.

"MEMDB" <adv@memdb.com> wrote in message news:409996e4$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hi Bob,
>
> I guess it is not the wrong with my code since I cannot get the error
> message on my computer.  The error message only appears on my customer
> computer and I cannot visit her office to debug.  My first guess of the
> reason is the OS problem or hardware problem in her computer.  I am happy if
> someone can tell me the reason and any suggestion to fix it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- 
> Enoch Ng
> http://www.memdb.com
> "Bob Gonder" <notbg@notmindspring.invalid> ???
> news:bo1i90hbrhk9rhnpus100o6lumvd14pd7n@4ax.com ???...
> > MEMDB wrote:
> >
> > >I guess not.  I just wonder why it does not happen on my computer (as I
> am
> > >also using Window 2000 too).  The problem only occurs on my customer's
> > >computer.  That is why I cannot detact the problem on the debugger.
> >
> > Doesn't the error report the address at which it happened?
> > Plug that address into your debugger session to see what part of your
> > code is wrong.  If it's a floating point divide, then add code to make
> > sure the numbers are valid before doing the divide (etc).
> >
> >
>
>
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