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Miriam



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:33 pm    Post subject: unknown floating point exception b8a1 Reply with quote

Since I am not a good programmer, I spent a couple of hours to figure out, where is this error coming from without any results. Here is the error message: "Floating point co-processir fault at address 00404244 in file at line 364". This line is a function definition.
I load a file in the beginning of my program. The code is working if the loaded file has 1000 Data points but if I load a file with 2000 Data points, I get this error. I declared the arrays and pre-assigned them with the size 4000, so it wouldnt be the problem.
My code is very long I can not post it here.
Please help me if you can
nice Saturday
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Posting some lines of code near to line 364 may help us to see the problem.
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Miriam



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

FUNCTION F1(A,B,C)
IMPLICIT DOUBLE PRECISION (A-H,O-Z)
F1=B/(A*C) (LIne 364)
RETURN
END

and here is the call of the function

D1=F1(RAR,ETA2+(H*C2),E(J+1))
D2=F2(RAR,(ETA1+(H*C1)),VZ(J+1),Q,PER,E(J+1))
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Make sure that F1 and its arguments are all DOUBLE PRECISION at the point of call.

Make sure that A and C are not very small.

Use CHECKMATE whilst testing.
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Miriam



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

here is where and how I call F1 :
Code:

  FUNCTION RB(Q,E,VZ,R)
     IMPLICIT DOUBLE PRECISION (A-H,O-Z)
     DOUBLE PRECISION, DIMENSION (4000)::E,VZ,R
      DOUBLE PRECISION ETA1, ETA2,RAR, H, C1, C2
     COMMON/BOB/L,BI,IMAX,RE,REST,REPHI,FM,PR,PSI1,C3,UINF,PER
C
   ETA1=1.0
   ETA2=0.0
C
C
C
          DO 20 J=1,IMAX-1
      H=R(J+1)-R(J)
      RAR=R(J)
C
      IF(RAR.LT.1.0E-06) THEN
       A1=0.0
      ELSE
       A1=F1(RAR,ETA2,E(J))
      END IF
      A2=F2(RAR,ETA1,VZ(J),Q,PER,E(J))
C
      RAR=RAR+H/2.0
      EEE=(E(J)+E(J+1))/2.0
      VVV=(VZ(J)+VZ(J+1))/2.0
C
      B1=F1(RAR,ETA2+(H*A2)/2.0,EEE)
      B2=F2(RAR,(ETA1+(H*A1)/2.0),VVV,Q,PER,EEE)
      C1=F1(RAR,ETA2+(H*B2)/2.0,EEE)
      C2=F2(RAR,(ETA1+(H*B1)/2.0),VVV,Q,PER,EEE)
C
      RAR=RAR+H/2.0
C
      D1=F1(RAR,ETA2+(H*C2),E(J+1))
      D2=F2(RAR,(ETA1+(H*C1)),VZ(J+1),Q,PER,E(J+1))
C
      ETA1=ETA1+(H*(A1+2.0*B1+2.0*C1+D1))/6.0
      ETA2=ETA2+(H*(A2+2.0*B2+2.0*C2+D2))/6.0
C
 20       CONTINUE
C
   RB=ETA1
C
        RETURN
   END


EVery thing is double precision. I dont get it Sad
P.S: A and C are very small, and it should be that way
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 4:20 pm    Post subject: Re: Reply with quote

Miriam wrote:

P.S: A and C are very small, and it should be that way


Hi Miriam,

How small? If the product A*C on the denominator underflows, i.e. it becomes to small to represent you will get an error.

Can you post the values of A and C so we can check? Or you could try re-writing your function as F1=(B/A)/C which might help if B is small.

Also did you try compiling with Checkmate enabled as Paul suggested?
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Miriam



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I compiled with Checkmate, but also with Debug and ReleaseNet, no one is really working. I am now so confused about the values of A and C.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Perhaps you can define a minimum divisor and test the product A*C in your function F1 like here:

if (A*C) .lt. 10.D0*tiny(1.D0) --> program stops

Regards - Wilfried
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It appear to me that you should check the values of A*C. You could do this in Function RB by including
Code:

      subroutine check_AC (R,E,IMAX)
!
      real*8 R(*),e(*),   tiny,RAR,EEE
      integer*4 imax,     n_err, j
!
      n_err = 0          ! count of zero A*C
      tiny  = 1.d-10     ! estimate of what is too small for calculation ??
      DO J=1,IMAX-1
         RAR = R(J)
         EEE = E(J)
         if ( abs (RAR*EEE) < tiny) then
            write (*,*) 'small A*C=', RAR*EEE,' at J=',j
            n_err = n_err+1
         end if
         RAR = (R(J)+R(J+1))/2.0
         EEE = (E(J)+E(J+1))/2.0
         if ( abs (RAR*EEE) < tiny) then
            n_err = n_err+1
            write (*,*) 'small A*C=', RAR*EEE,' at J=',j,'.5'
         end if
      end do
      if (n_err > 0) write (*,*) n_err,' too small values of A*C detected'
!
      end


This could indicate how best to improve Function RB to cope with what is assumed to be unusual values in R or E.
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