Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Strange Floating Point Exception problem

2008-08-27 Thread Alan Krause
Tom, I have some experience with FPEs under Delphi, and what I came to learn is that most of the time, the exception occurs somewhere before what is reported, due to "Imprecise Trapping Modes". In short, "this means the hardware can detect a floating-point exception and deliver an interrupt, but p

[fpc-pascal] Re: Strange Floating Point Exception problem

2008-08-24 Thread Tom Verhoeff
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:20:48AM +0200, Tom Verhoeff wrote: > I have an application (for optimizing decisions in the dice game Yahtzee) > that uses Real and runs well with FPC on Mac OS X (PPC), but that > fails with a Floating Point Exception (FPE) under Windows (FPC 2.2.0). I "played" around s