[Numpy-discussion] segmentation fault

[Keith Goodman]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Alan McIntyre <alan.mcintyre at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I wonder if this is something that ought to be looked at for all
>>> functions with an "out" parameter?  ndarray.compress also had problems
>>> with array type mismatch (#789); I can't imagine that it's safe to
>>> assume only these two functions were doing it incorrectly. (Unless of
>>> course somebody has recently looked at all of them)
>>
>> I think that is an excellent idea! A good start would be to list all the
>> functions with the out parameter and then write some tests. The current
>> behavior is inconsistent and we not only need to specify the behavior, but
>> fix all the places that don't follow the rules.
>
> There's a ticket (#416) that calls for the docstrings of such
> functions to be updated as well; that's something that should be easy
> to do at the same time.  Since I'm working on tests nowadays, I'll see
> if I can work on coming up with a list and at least writing some
> tests.

I guess cumprod is an obvious one to try:

>> def fn():
   x = np.random.rand(5,2)
   x.cumprod(None, out=x)
   return x

   ....:
>> fn()
Segmentation fault