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Article #590Arrgh, Floating Point exception on sequent! Help!
From: Clay Luther
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 20:05
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 20:05
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I cannot figure this one out. My program is generating a floating point
exception when testing two valid float numbers. Here is the code...
40 int r1, r2;
41 float fval;
42 float tval;
43
44 r1 = (int)x;
45 tval = (x - r1);
46 fval = float_rand();
47 r2 = r1+1;
48 if ( fval > tval ) {
49 return r1;
50 } else {
51 return r2;
52 }
x is register float, and is passed into the function. Originally, I had the
function written simply as:
return ( ( float_rand() > x-(int)x ) ? (int)x : (int)(x+1) );
but that generated a fp error. I expanded it so I could look at each step.
The error occurs on line 48
if ( fval > tval ) {
WHY?
Dbx informs that both fval and tval have reasonable values. But this test just
doesn't work.
Confused.
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Clay Luther Lonely C++ Programmer
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