Re: s2ibis2

>
> Hi Everyone: I encountered some difficulties in using
> the latest release of the s2ibis2 Spice to IBIS
> conversion program from NCSU, s2ibis2 Version2 (The
> latest available downloaded from the IBIS web site. I am
> using a DEC Alpha workstation and I had to recompile to
> get the correct executable). The program went into
> execution, completed all the required .spi jobs and all
> the .out jobs looked ok. However, when it tried to
> write the .ibs file, it gave me a '9798 floating
> exception' error and quit. It did not gerenate the .ibs
> file at all (got an empty file). The 9798 number in not
> a constant, it changes to a new number everytime I rerun
> the program. There are no other error
> messages and I don't know where to look for the source
> of the error. I rerun the identical files using the
> older version of s2ibis2 (v0.91BETA) and it went through
> ok. I would appreciate any comments or suggestions
> anyone may have to help me resolve the problem.
>
Jeff,
The number in front of the floating exception is a process
number of the process running the IBIS output. Therefore
it will change everytime. The problem is the floating
exception - this is usually caused by the program dividing
a number by zero. The empty file is caused by the file buffer
not being flushed before the program crashes.

That's the diagnosis, but it is difficult to pin down the
cause without using a debugger. It's sick, I don't know
precisely why - hey, I should be a medical doctor!

Regards

Mike
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Received on Sat Mar 29 13:37:41 1997