Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:16:12 +0000 (   )
From: "Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>
To: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Floating Point Exceptions ???
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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Thomas Demmer wrote:

> The NiBBLeR wrote:

> > Can somebody please tell what the reason could be ???
> 
> After taking a deep breath, relaxing into the infinity of the universe
> and gathering all my pscychokinetic forces I came up with the following
> answer:
>  It could be
>  - mixing %f and %lf in ?scanf()
>  - a dangling pointer pointing some integer or character that,
>    when seen as a float, makes only little, if any, sense.
>  - an old libm.a that has the bug in exp()
>  - virtually anything that may go wrong in programming.



While you wait to exhale, let me add, quickly, one more

   - invalid arguments to math functions?