I'm replying to myself, sorry. I forgot to add that I'm running this on Linux Ubuntu Breezy on a dual Xeon computer. Does someone know why the function below works fine in a basic C program but crashes in NS-2?
Thanks in advance, Arkaitz On 4/25/06, Arkaitz Bitorika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am using a Python numerical library (http://www.numpy.org/) embedded in > NS, and while there's no problem on most of the functionality, I've found > that there's a function that throws a Floating point exception whenever it's > called from NS. This function is pasted below, it has no dependency on > Python, it also throws the Floating point exception when called from a > vanilla NS-2 installation: > > double > pinf_init(void) > { > double mul = 1e10; > double tmp = 0.0; > double pinf; > > pinf = mul; > for (;;) { > pinf *= mul; > if (pinf == tmp) break; > tmp = pinf; > } > return pinf; > } > > This function runs fine when called from an empty main() C++ program, but > if called from NS-2 I get the Floating point exception. Any idea what may be > causing this crash? > > Thanks, > Arkaitz >
