[Numpy-discussion] OS X PPC problem with Numpy 1.3.0b1

[David Cournapeau]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Bruce Southey <bsouthey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I get a problem with using longdouble as that is the dtype that causes
> the  TestPower.test_large_types to crash.

Hey, when I said the windows 64 bits support was experimental, I meant it :)

> Also, np.finfo(np.float128) crashes. I can assign and multiple
> longdoubles and take the square root but not use the power '**'.
>  >>> y=np.longdouble(2)
>  >>> y
> 2.0
>  >>> y**1
> 2.0
>  >>> y**2
> crash

There was a bug in the mingw powl function, but I thought the problem
was fixed upstream. I will look at it.

This shows that numpy lacks long testing, though - the numpy test
suite passes 100 % (when it does not crash :) ), but the long double
support is very flaky at best on the windows 64 + mingw combination
ATM.

cheers,

David