Floating Point Arguments Won't Pass Between Windows NT RPC and IBM RPC Implementations

ID: Q189032

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0
Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0
Microsoft Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition version 4.0
Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0, Terminal Server Edition

SYMPTOMS

Floating point arguments cannot be passed successfully between the Windows NT implementation of RPC or DCOM9x and IBM implementations.

CAUSE

The Windows NT Network Data Representation (NDR) engine is not able to convert from IBM floating point representation to IEEE floating point representation.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows NT 4.0 or Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q152734 How to Obtain the Latest Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition. This problem was first corrected in Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4.0 and Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition Service Pack 4.

Additional query words: 4.00

Keywords : kbnetwork NT4SP4Fix kbbug4.00 kbRPC kbSDKPlatform kbfix4.00.sp4 kbGrpNet
Version : WinNT:4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug