[SciPy-user] scipy general_function segfault

[Pearu Peterson]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Arnd Baecker wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Pearu Peterson wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Arnd Baecker wrote:
> >
> > > Independent of this: could the segfault be compiler dependent ?
> >
> > Indeed, the segfaults seem to occur only with gcc 3.3.1 (Debian) and when
> > using general_function, other special module tests pass ok.
> > Here follows my test results:
> 
> Very good - so this allows for a work-around.
> Still this is not really satisfactory-  however
> I fear that it will be really tricky to find
> the bug in the debian gcc 3.3.1 (also I am not
> sure how crucial this "prerelease" tag is).

gcc 3.3.2 will be released Oct 1, I hope it will fix the problem.

> Would  a small unit test for general_function
> be useful ?

It is in the CVS repository already;) Here is a quicker way to
test the general_function issue (rather than rebuilding scipy) with
different compilers:

  cd scipy/Lib/special
  rm -rf build
  python setup_special.py build
  python tests/test_basic.py

Regards,
	Pearu