Problem introduced after 1.0rc2 on AIX with xlc

[Brian Granger]

Here is the traceback that I got:

In [1]: import numpy
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exceptions.FloatingPointError                        Traceback (most
recent call last)

/u2/granger/<ipython console>

/usr/common/homes/g/granger/usr/local/lib/python/numpy/__init__.py
     36     import core
     37     from core import *
---> 38     import lib
     39     from lib import *
     40     import linalg

/usr/common/homes/g/granger/usr/local/lib/python/numpy/lib/__init__.py
      3 from numpy.version import version as __version__
      4
----> 5 from type_check import *
      6 from index_tricks import *
      7 from function_base import *

/usr/common/homes/g/granger/usr/local/lib/python/numpy/lib/type_check.py
      8 import numpy.core.numeric as _nx
      9 from numpy.core.numeric import asarray, array, isnan, obj2sctype, zeros
---> 10 from ufunclike import isneginf, isposinf
     11
     12 _typecodes_by_elsize = 'GDFgdfQqLlIiHhBb?'

/usr/common/homes/g/granger/usr/local/lib/python/numpy/lib/ufunclike.py
     44     return y
     45
---> 46 _log2 = umath.log(2)
     47 def log2(x, y=None):
     48     """Returns the base 2 logarithm of x

FloatingPointError: invalid value encountered in log

Obviously because I am having the error raised, I only get the first one.  Hmmm.

Brian

On 10/20/06, Tim Hochberg <tim.hochberg at ieee.org> wrote:
> Brian Granger wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i am running numpy on aix compiling with xlc.  Revision 1.0rc2 works
> > fine and passes all tests.  But 1.0rc3 and more recent give the
> > following on import:
> >
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in multiply
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in multiply
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in multiply
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in add
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in not_equal
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in absolute
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in less
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in multiply
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in multiply
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in equal
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in multiply
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in multiply
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in multiply
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in add
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in not_equal
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in absolute
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in less
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in multiply
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in multiply
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in equal
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in multiply
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in multiply
> > Warning: invalid value encountered in multiply
> > [lots more of this]
> >
> > The odd thing is that all tests pass.  I have looked, but can't find
> > where this Warning is coming from  in the code.  Any thoughts on where
> > this is coming from?  What can I do to help debug this?  I am not sure
> > what revision introduced this issue.
> >
> The reason that you are seeing this now is that the default error state
> has been tightened up. There were some issues with tests failing as a
> result of this, but I believe I fixed those already and you're seeing
> this on import, not when running the tests correct? The first thing to
> do is figure out where the invalids are occurring, and the natural way
> to do that is to set the error state to raise, but you can't set the
> error state till you import it, so that's not going to help here.
>
> I think the first thing that I would try is to throw in a
> seterr(all='raise', under='ignore') right after the call to _setdef in
> numeric.py. If you're lucky, this will point out where the invalids are
> popping up. As a sanity check, you could instead make this
> seterr(all='ignore'), which should make all the warnings go away, but
> won't tell you anything about why there are warnings to begin with.
>
> Regards,
>
> -tim
>
>
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