I'm reading a book on assembly, and it talks a bit about the IEEE floating point format.
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To summarize, the following steps are used to convert a decimal number to IEEE single format: 1. The leading bit of the floating point format is 0 for a positive number and 1 for a negative number. 2. Write the unsigned number in binary. 3. Write the binary number in binary scientific notation f23.f22 ... f0 2^e, where f23 = 1. There are 24 fraction bits, but it is not necessary to write trailing 0's. 4. Add a bias of 127 to the exponent e. This sum, in binary form, is the next 8 bits of the answer, following the sign bit. (Adding a bias is an alternative to storing the exponent as a signed number.) 5. The fraction bits f22f21 ... f0 form the last 23 bits of the floating point number. The leading bit f23 (which is always 1) is dropped.
I know it is wrong to use the "==" operator to compare the equality of two floating point numbers. Logically it would seem that if the "==" operator is not usable for floating point comparison, then the "<=" operator would also not be usable. Is this true? The lack of google search results on this topic made me think that it must be true. If that is true, then is it true that the only way to compare floats with <= or >= is with something like the code below? Code: bool smaller_than_or_equal(float a, float b) {
if ( fabs(a-b) < EPSILON){return true;} else if (a < b) {return true;} else {return false;}
} I think this is a general question, but if specifics are necessary, I am using the C++ language to code at the moment.
how to perform floating point operations in kernel? i answered that its impossible to perform floating point operations in kernel.but he is telling that its possible but with some feature to be added.can any body know about this perfectly??
My main problem right now is doing floating point arithmetic within a bash script, with variables.Right now I have a folder called "myExamples" with a script called "run_example" that runs with no issues.I plan to(1) create many folders inside [myExamples], that are named [example10] [example11]...each containing an identical copy of (run_example),(2) modify Line 172 of each copy of (run_example)...in one copy, it would be 3.00, the next copy would have 3.05, etc. (This part doesn't work!)How can use the available calculator bc code to do floating point operations?My code is below -
#!/bin/sh # run from directory where this script is cd `echo $0 | sed 's/(.*)/.*/1/'` # extract pathname
I have tried to learn how 64bit asm (nasm in my case) works and found, among the many disparate pieces of info on the net, a few vague inferences that floating point registers can be used for other purposes than what they are intended for, example: "64-bit Linux allows up to fourteen parameters to be transferred in registers (6 integer and 8 floating point)." This would be fantastic for string operations/manipulation (I have never used asm for floating-point operations), can anyone shed a bit of light?
pidgin started crashing today for no apparent reason. It just shutdowns. No freezing or anything, it just goes away, disappears. From what I can say, there's no specific trigger for this, it can happen after 2 or 10 min after I started it. Once it even shutdown right 10seconds. I tried to run it from the terminal. When I do that, the only thing that appears before closing is
Code: Floating point exception Anyone has an idea of what it can be? I made no upgrade to pidgin or libpurple recently. I made however an upgrade today of the following packages
I am facing floating point exception issues in running top on some of my Red-Hat Linux servers
# top 6:45am up 476 days, 52 min, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 109 processes: 108 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped Floating point exception When I am executing the same command using strace or ltrace, its running fine. # ls -lrt /usr/bin/top
I am using a gateway server, 1st NIC eth0 which is acting as WAN (DHCP)and 2nd NIC acting LAN(static). I am using DHCP to assign IP to eth0 from a Wimax modem. I am also use it as a MAIL server (openmail), and as a DHCP server. My server is of RHEL and kernel version is 2.4.8.18-14 and DHCP client & server version - 30pl1-9. The prolem is whenever I run the command..
ifup eth0 getting the error...
Determining IP information for eth0.../ifup: line277: 23328 Floating point exception/sbin/dhclient ${DHCLIENTARGS} ${DEVICE} so what should I do?? if I update the DHCP, would it be ok?
I had fuzzy icons in system tray so before couple of days i installed some updates and after that i have floating point exception in ktorrent and virtualbox 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-12-13 11:13:53 +0100 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
nvidia 9500 GT X.Org X Server 1.8.0 KDE 4.4.4 Here is the updates nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-260.19.21_k2.6.34.0_12-19.1 Tue 04 Jan 2011 04:14:42 PM CET x11-video-nvidiaG02-260.19.21-20.1
This is the first time I post a question on these forums My problem is as follows: I can't start gnome-terminal from the Applications->Accesories menu or from the Alt+F2 application launcher. I get a "Starting Terminal" in the task-bar that disappears after a few seconds and no terminal. I'm pretty sure there is something I did, but I can't really figure out what it is.
The things I've tried so far:
1. I used synaptic to remove and reinstall gnome-terminal. That didn't work 2. Started Xterm and tried to run "gnome-terminal". This is where it gets weird for me:
a. running the command as normal user I get a "Floating point exception" error and obviosly no terminal b. when I do "sudo gnome-terminal" and enter the root password I get, as expected, a root terminal. I could live with that, but it's not ideal.
One of those odd things I learned the hard way is that if you are writing a shared object (library/.so) and any programs that will link to that library uses floating point numbers, the library must be compiled as if it uses floating point numbers. What that really means is, you need to declare at least one float in the source for the library or when the caller connects and tries to run code in the library, the process aborts.I end up putting a float pi (3.1415); in the code and getting an unused variable warning all the time. There has to be a simpler way, some flag to pass to g++ that says, "include floating point support even if you don't really need to."
p.s. Gosh I hope I remembered this correctly. I encountered this problem doing a multi-platform build for Windows and Linux. This COULD be a VC++ problem that I just carried into Linux by using the same source.
Just updated WinFF to version 1.3.2-1.1. Since then it won't start up any more due to a floating point exeption. System: OpenSUSE 11.4 (x86) + KDE 4.6.0 Debug info:
WARNING] Out of OEM specific VK codes, changing to unassigned [WARNING] Out of unassigned VK codes, assigning $FF ERROR in LCL: TLRSObjectReader.SkipValue unknown valuetype Creating gdb catchable error: $080D1568
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I had the same error with earlier versions of WinFF in earlier versions of OpenSUSE. Then I could fix it by changing the KDE window styles. The error also occurs with the WinFF qt-version.
Over the last few months there have been multiple updates and I am getting a list of things that no longer work or that cause my system to fail. I can no longer open a pdf in firefox. It says there is no application assigned to the task. I ran evince and tried to open a pdf file and received a "floating point" error message on the terminal screen I was working from.
I just Installed Xubuntu 10.04 and as I was using it, the panels dissapeared. I tried running xfce4-panel but I get a "floating point exception" message. what might be causeing this?
why installing kde 4.6 from factory repos went wrong ? i used zypper dup with oss, non-oss and update repos for 11.3 to reset to default install and boot went ok :
this goes with the following package versions: $ kded4 --version Qt�: 4.6.3 KDE�: 4.4.4 (KDE 4.4.4) "release 3" i'm using this x86 kernel :
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my problem : when i add factory repos (core and extra) for kde install of packages from yast is ok when switching system packages to these. but after reboot i have floating point exceptions and a black screen and can' t boot anymore. the only way out i found so far is to zypper dup to go back to kde 4.4.4
I have a Pinnacle IEEE 1394 card which according to Yast/Hardware Information seems to be installed and recognised correctly.
Trying to use Kino to download from a Camcorder via IEEE 1394 nothing happens and looking at Kino Preferences IEEE 1394 tab it tells me:
"The IEEE Subsystem is not responding. The raw 1394 module must be loaded, and you must have read and write access to /dev/raw1394."
I do not have an entry /dev/raw1394 on my system. Files libraw1394 and libraw1394-8 were installed by default(SUSE 11.3 64bit), and I have since installed any others offered which were libraw1394-8-32bit, libraw1394-devel, libraw1394-devel-32bit but to no avail.
I recently added an external hard drive through a IEEE 1394 interface. I'm finding that during large file transfers the system slows to a crawl. It's still running: routing for example seems fine. But running applications are pretty much unusable: Apache is unusably slow, SSH login is very slow, etc. Currently I'm using the IEEE 1394 drivers from Axel's ATRpms but I'm pretty sure I saw this with the default kernel IEEE 1394 drivers too.
As you know, the length of "Options" field in TCP header is floating. It may be from 0 to 40 bytes. Is there any (simple) way to find it or to send data with TCP headers of fixed length?
I just noticed there doesn't seem to be a decimal point button on the calculator (gcalctool 5.32.0) when it is in programming mode. I'm using Fedora 14 (32-bit).
I have the most strange problem ever in programming. I fork a process into a parent and a child. In every forked process i declare a pointer, malloc and define a different value for every pointer.When i printf the value and the address guess what? They both have the SAME ADDRESS but DIFFERENT values, as assigned..Here's the portion of my code:
I am doing a project on page replacement algorithms.... Can anyone point out the the source code for page swapping in linux kernel source tree.(I am using 2.6.31 kernel on a 32 bit x86 machine).
I recently installed the pptpd server on my system and set it up according to these instructions:HTML Code[URL]t=132029However after setting everything up on attempting to connect to it from a windows machine (windows 7 home premium to be specific) it gives me two errors which are 720 and 800...It reaches "registering your computer on the network" fine and then gives 720 on the first attempt to connect and then 800 on the second attempt to connect...and then on the third 720 and 4th 800 and so on..My system running the server's I.P is 192.168.1.70My system running the windows OS trying to connects I.P is: 192.168.1.66
