topic Capturing exceptions in Intel® Fortran Compiler

Capturing exceptions

Reinaldo_Garcia — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:09:46 GMT

How can I capture runtime exceptions such as overflows, etc.? I am presently using "Produce Nan, signed infinities, and denormal results" (/fpe:3) and when an exception occurs the program just hangs. I would like it to generate an error message.

I have tried /fpe:0 and 1 but the program results are incorrect and different from the ones with /fpe:3.

Any suggestions?

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Steven_L_Intel1 — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:35:27 GMT

The program "hanging" is not normal for an arithmetic exception. Note that the default is to allow underflows to produce denormals and your program might be trying to "converge" and not doing so. If /fpe:0 gives you different results, then you are very likely doing computations with denormalized values and this loses precision. Since you don't get exceptions, you're not seeing overflows so there's nothing to capture.

The standard way to do what you want is through the IEEE_EXCEPTIONS and IEEE_ARITHMETIC intrinsic modules. You can set the behavior to give an error on an underflow.

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Reinaldo_Garcia — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:13:08 GMT

Thanks Steve.

When I said that the program was "hanging", I wanted to say that the program reported NaNs and became exceedingly slow. I just want it to bang and stop when an overflow occurs. Beside the IEEE modules, is there n equivalent option to /fpe:0 that would abort the program without reducing underflows to 0.0?

Cheers,

R//G

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TimP — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:58:36 GMT

You could simply test a strategic value (outside any performance-critical loop) by ieee_isnan() so as to take a kill action.

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Steven_L_Intel1 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:01:37 GMT

USE, INTRINSIC :: IEEE_EXCEPTIONS
...
CALL IEEE_SET_HALTING_MODE(IEEE_OVERFLOW,.TRUE.)

I will comment, though, that if you're getting NaNs, you aren't seeing overflows.

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Reinaldo_Garcia — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:49:48 GMT

If I understand well, you are indicating that if my program was generating overflows, it would halt even when using /fpe:3?

Are NaNs generated by Division by 0?

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Steven_L_Intel1 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:48:07 GMT

Yes, that's what should happen.

That's one way to generate NaNs, but not the only way.

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Reinaldo_Garcia — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:08:09 GMT

Thanks Steve.

Is there a compiler option that would forcethe program halt when a NaN occurs in the same way of the Overflows and withouth assinging 0. to the underflows?

R//G

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Steven_L_Intel1 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:16:00 GMT

No, but you can call IEEE_SET_HALTING_MODE(IEEE_INVALID,.TRUE.) in the main program to do that.

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Reinaldo_Garcia — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:21:43 GMT

Excellent. I will try that.

Thanks again.

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strohhaecker — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:54:13 GMT

> Are NaNs generated by Division by 0?

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Steven_L_Intel1 — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:34:48 GMT

Yes, division by zero is one way to generate a NaN.

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TimP — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:49:56 GMT

Only for the case 0./0,, or possibly cases involving subnormal, as well as (x/0.)*0.

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Reinaldo_Garcia — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:53:00 GMT

I am not sure. I created the following code:

call ieee_get_flag (ieee_usual, flag_values)

if (any(flag_values)) then

write(*,*) ' Error code: ', flag_values

stop

endif

That outputs: T F T when it captures an error.

I guess that reflects an ieee_invalid, but I am not sure.

R//G

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strohhaecker — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:39:00 GMT

For whatever weird way posting on this forum is broken with IE9.

Anyways TimP posted the same (division by zero generates +-infinity, not NaN).

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netphilou31 — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:25:14 GMT

Quoting strohhaecker

For whatever weird way posting on this forum is broken with IE9.
Anyways TimP posted the same (division by zero generates +-infinity, not NaN).

If you want to post to this forum with IE9 you need toswitch on the browsercompatibility mode (the iconshowing abrokenpage at the end of the address bar).

Best regards

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Steven_L_Intel1 — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:49:43 GMT

I'm not seeing any problems posting with IE9 (using it to post this) and there is no compatibility mode icon in my browser bar.