ARM Luminary TCP debug double precision numbers

Hi,
I'm working with Labview and a LM3S8962 Luminary evaluation board.
I'm debugging with TCP port and when I use double precision float variables I see some like random numbers on my front panel indicators or on my probe points (i.e. 1.5664325e34.....-12.452244e128) for those variables, but at the same time I'm printing the numbers on the board LCD display and they are shown ok. If I do all the opperations on double precision and then convert the result number to single presicion to display it...then indicators and probes works fine. Also if I do debug with USB ULINK JTAG all works ok on single, double and extended presicion.
Have anybody experienced something like that?
I'm missing some TCP configuration perhaps?
Regards,
Matthuz

Hello Kevin, thank you for your reply.
I'm attaching a little demo to show you what is going on. If I set the debug options to use ULink all works nice, but it doesn't with TCP.
It could be something with the signal generator that I'm using?
Attachments:
Test_Double.zip ‏16 KB

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