[comp.ai.neural-nets] RCS causes aching wetware

dirk@terra.ucsc.edu (Dirk Coldewey) (04/17/91)

I've been trying to implement a rather large neural network using the
Rochester Connectionist Simulator (version 4.2), and ran into a rather
annoying problem under SunOS 4.1 on Sun 4 systems when I use the
floating point version:

Using dbx to debug my programs, in the site function local variables
always get assigned a value of 0.0, although not by any obvious means.
By this I mean that I can make an assignment like

	local_variable = global_variable[index].field

where dbx tells me that the value of global_variable[index].field = 1,
and local_variable is 0 after the assignment.  Another student here
mentioned that he experienced similar problems.  Has anyone else experienced
this problem, and is there a known remedy?

Thanks in advance,

Dirk