[DUG] Calculations affected by login

[John Davys]

I'm trying to think of a way other running processes could affect the
numerical calculations in the way described.

I've been around long enough to remember the Pentium FDIV bug which is what
this reminds me of, except that of course it does produce the right answers
on the same machine as a different user!


-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of peter at webcentre.co.nz
Sent: Wednesday, 28 May 2008 4:44 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Calculations affected by login

> A further point of interest is that a tester, in a different 
> organisation, reports the same issue i.e. it doesn't produce the 
> correct answers as a network user but does on a standalone pc. In this 
> case the standalone pc is a physically different machine.
>
> I'm struggling to come up with any kind of mechanism that could 
> account for this behaviour. Any ideas?

I assume you've done a thorough check for any differences in
startup/background processes between the different logins?

And tried tweaking (if this is possible) with the level/style of permissions
given in the network case, to see if you can isolate a change which affects
the problem?

cheers,
peter

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