[Numpy-discussion] Three bugs fixed

[Michael Droettboom]

Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it on Solaris/SPARC (SVN r7878, 
trunk).  Could it be Linux/SPARC-specific?  (We don't have a Linux/SPARC 
machine lying around, I don't think).

Mike

Michael Droettboom wrote:
> Charles R Harris wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Travis Oliphant 
>> <oliphant at enthought.com <mailto:oliphant at enthought.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     I'm not sure which fix that was.   The bus errors started when I
>>     added the test for #1299.  I also fixed the test with the reduceat
>>     bug in that same checkin, but the SPARC build machines are
>>     reporting a bus error in testing #1299. 
>>
>>     I'm not sure where the bus error is occurring in that code exactly
>>     (i.e. the test wasn't being run before my fix so it could have
>>     exposed a bus error earlier --- obviously I need to play better
>>     with the build-bots than I am doing). 
>>
>>
>> The error could certainly been lurking all these years, I don't think 
>> reduceat gets used much.
>>  
>>
>>     A likely candidate though is the PyArray_Item_INCREF  call (though
>>     it uses the new copy-object-before-refcount-changes  semantics). 
>>
>>
>> Would that cause a bus error? That looks like an alignment issue. 
>> There was another buffer alignment issue a while back that I fixed, 
>> I'll try to track it down. Maybe we can get Michael Droettboom to help 
>> here, he has access to SPARC.
>>     
> Sure.  I have some time to look into it this morning.
>
> Mike
>
>   

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Michael Droettboom
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