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Subject: 
Intermittend IC floating point divide problem
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
Date: 
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 17:31:56 GMT
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Randy Sargent <rsargent@newtonlabs.^IHateSpam^com>
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Dear Richard and Javaid,

I have assigned a programmer to track down the floating point divide
problem, and will keep you posted on its resolution.  We believe it is a
problem with the floating point library that is assembled into the pcode,
so it is likely we should be able to release a new version of the pcode
with a fix to the problem.

-- Randy

Thankyou for your kind response to my student Javaid Iqbal on errors in
using floating point divide within IC software.  The errors have
effectively brought our use to a full stop at present because we cannot
rely on results nor bypass what has become a random occurance of the
error.  Would you know of anybody who can fix the bug or a different
software environment to use?

Kind regards

Richard Willgoss
UNSW, Sydney, Australia

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Randy Sargent                        Newton Research Labs
President                            Robotic Systems and Software
rsargent@newtonlabs.com              http://www.newtonlabs.com/



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  Re: Intermittend IC floating point divide problem
 
Somebody already did part of the job. If you go to (URL) you can download a pcode source for a road warrior kind of robot with some "corrections to the floating point math library to produce correct results for several previously buggy operations". (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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