Article: Q58954
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 7.00 | 7.00
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | SR# S900215-15 | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 27-FEB-1990
A BASIC PDS 7.00 program gives "run-time error R6002 - Floating point
not loaded" on a machine WITHOUT a coprocessor when the BASIC run-time
library or .EXE program is created with coprocessor-only support.
Coprocessor-only support means that the BASIC run-time routines
require an 80x87 (8087, 80287, or 80387) math coprocessor to run.
The R6002 error is an initialization error that cannot be trapped in a
BASIC program.
Implementing coprocessor-only support in an .EXE program depends upon
whether you compile with or without the BC /O (stand-alone .EXE)
option, as follows:
1. If you compile WITHOUT BC /O, BASIC programs require a run-time
module (BRT70xxx.EXE) to be present at run time. If you want to
build a BASIC run-time module and BRT70xxx.LIB file with
coprocessor-only support, you must invoke the BUILDRTM.EXE utility
with the /FPi87 switch. For example:
BUILDRTM /LR /FPi87 /DEFAULT
(See Page 611 of "Microsoft BASIC 7.0: Language Reference" for an
explanation of the options of the BUILDRTM.EXE utility.) You can
then link with your new coprocessor-only run-time module, as
follows:
BC test;
LINK IMPORT+test,test,,{newlibname} /NOE;
2. If you compile WITH the BC /O (stand-alone .EXE) option, you can
directly link your BASIC .OBJ file with the 87.LIB stub file. For
example:
BC test /O;
LINK test+87.LIB /NOE;