[SciPy-user] floating point exception in interpolate.splrep

[Taro Sato]

Andrew Straw <strawman <at> astraw.com> writes:

> 
> 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. See http://www.its.caltech.edu/~astraw/coding.html#id3 
> for more information.
> 
> [1] http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=279294
> 


Just for completeness --- indeed this was the cause of the problem.  Thank you
very much for all who responded to and pointed me in the right direction!  Even
Debian isn't perfect!

Taro