Floating Point Underflow

Steve Kargl sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Fri Sep 26 15:25:00 GMT 2008


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:21:27AM -0500, Ray Nachlinger wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 09:43:15AM -0500, Ray Nachlinger wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is there a gfortran compiler option that will
> > > prevent a fatal "Floating Point Underflow" error
> > > message on 64bit Windows. This problem does not
> > > occur on 32bit systems.
> > > 
> > 
> > Is this a compile time or runtime problem?
> 
>   Only runtime. Have big program that works nicely on
>   Solaris, 32, 64 bit Linux, 32bit OS X, and 32 bit
>   Windows (mingw). Received this error report from
>   a user on 64bit Windows. Traceback from place
>   what an underflow should be expected.

Underflow should never be a fatal error.   Is the error
message a gfortran error message or an OS error message?
It appears that you need to contact the OS vendor.

-- 
Steve



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