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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: FPE problem
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies)
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 19:30:44 +0000 (GMT)
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> I'm having a weird problem with a f2c program which is causing an FPE
> for a reason I cannot figure out.
> 
> It happens in a complex expression in a fortran expression
> in a scientific (high energy physics) calculation program.

You seem to be getting a lef-associtivity underflow in the FORTRAN
code and not in the C code.  The only apparent difference is the
order of the divide.

But then, I'm rusty.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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