[Numpy-discussion] Three bugs fixed

[Charles R Harris]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Travis Oliphant <oliphant at enthought.com>wrote:
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>> On Dec 3, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Charles R Harris wrote:
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>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Travis Oliphant <oliphant at enthought.com>wrote:
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>>> Thanks to the reporters of tickets  #1108, #1197 (similar to #1279), and
>>> #1222.
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>>> Pointing out these problems allowed me to find and squash two subtle
>>> memory leaks and one just plain stupid bug lurking in reduce-at (when using
>>> the buffered internal loop).
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>>> I think I fixed the problems.  I added a test for #1108, but  I don't
>>> have good tests for the memory leak fixes.    I'm not sure how to write a
>>> good test for those.
>>>
>>> Even though it may take several months to get to the tickets with my
>>> limited time, please do continue to report problems.   I'm hoping to have
>>> more time for NumPy next year.
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>> Good job! Nice to have the reduceat bug tracked down. Now for some nits ;)
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>> Thanks for keeping the code clean.
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>> O.K.  I can commit to the trunk first.
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>> How do I see what the build-bot machines are giving errors on.  I'd like
>> to try and fix the bus errors if possible while I'm thinking about it?
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> I like the waterfall view
> http://buildbot.scipy.org/waterfall?show_events=false, it doesn't
> automatically update though, so you need to refresh it now and then. The
> root page is at http://buildbot.scipy.org/. Mind, the SPARC machines take
> 10-15 minutes to complete on a good day. If you hit the stdio link on the
> waterfall display for a machine you can view the test output.
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> I expect the bus error is from the starting index fix.
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Maybe the buffer needs alignment?

Chuck
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