[SciPy-user] svn commands

[Steve Schmerler]

Andrew Straw wrote:
> Steve Schmerler wrote:
> 
> 
>>	scipy.test()
>>
>>I get a floating point exception:
>>
>>......................................................................................
>>.........................................................................................................................
>>.............................Gleitkomma-Ausnahme
>> 
>>
> 
> 
> Are you running Debian sarge on a machine with SSE?

Yes sarge. I'm running the latest kernel 2.6.14.3 (kernel.org) in case 
this info is of any importance. My CPU is a Athlon XP 2400+ so I 
shouldn't have SSE2 (says google).

> 
> GNU libc version 2.3.2 has a bug[1] "feclearexcept() error on CPUs with
> SSE" (fixed in 2.3.3) which has been  submitted to Debian[2] but not
> fixed in sarge. You can see my page about the issue, complete with patch[3].
> 
> [1] http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=279294
> [3]
> http://www.its.caltech.edu/~astraw/coding.html#libc-patched-for-debian-sarge-to-fix-floating-point-exceptions-on-sse2
> 

Since SSE seems not to be the problem, what else could it be?

I get the same exception with the latest svn checkout of core and scipy 
as well as with the sources (core, scipy) from sourceforge.

cheers,
steve

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