[R] Rgdal windows binary warning message

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is a consequence of how VC++ compiled gdal.  R is protecting 
itself against that.  Since R did not crash, there is nothing to worry 
about.

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Tony Gill wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just downloaded windows binaries of RGDAL (from
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.1/) and installed.
>
> I ran the example R_HOME\library\rgdal\R-ex\getPixmapGDAL.R and everything
> seemed to work as expected. However I got the following warning message:
>
> DLL attempted to change FPU control word from 8001f to 9001f
>
> The R-help (?dyn.load) describes the problem as:
>
> ************************************
> External code must not change the floating point control word, but
>     many DLLs do so.  Common changes are to set it to use 53 bit
>     precision instead of R's default 64 bit precision, or to unmask
>     some exceptions.  'dyn.load' detects such changes,  and restores
>     R's control word to its default value of hex 8001F.   This may
>     cause the DLL to malfunction; if so, it should be rewritten to
>     save and restore the control word itself.  If 'warn.FPU' is set to
>     'TRUE' using the 'options' function,  a warning will be printed.
>     (If the warning says that the control word was changed from some
>     other value than 8001F,  please report the circumstances to the
>     Windows maintainers:   that probably indicates an internal bug.)
>
> ************************************
>
> Does anyone know if this is a major problem for reading and manipulating
> image files using RDAL? And if so are there windows binaries which have
> patched it up?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Tony
>
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