[SciPy-dev] newcore and gcc4/gfortran

[Travis Oliphant]

Arnd Baecker wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Travis Oliphant wrote:
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>>cdfbin_ is a Fortran-compiled subroutine so this looks like a compiler
>>problem.  It doesn't look like the fortran compiler in gcc is really
>>ready for primetime.
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>>At some point it may be possible to test the compiler on these fortran
>>files in scipy and decide if it will work during configuration.  I'm not
>>going to start debuggin the gcc fortran compiler at this point, though.
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>Which is perfectly understandable!
>Just for the record - I also tried the gcc4/g77 variant, which gets beyond
>the above point, but segfaults at another place:
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>check_choose (scipy.special.basic.test_basic.test_choose) ...
>Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>[Switching to Thread 46912509653888 (LWP 29558)]
>0x00002aaaabdec67b in PyArray_Choose (ip=<value optimized out>,
>    op=<value optimized out>) at multiarraymodule.c:1422
>1422            for(i=0; i<n; i++) Py_XDECREF(mps[i]);
>(gdb) bt
>#0  0x00002aaaabdec67b in PyArray_Choose (ip=<value optimized out>,
>    op=<value optimized out>) at multiarraymodule.c:1422
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Wait...  This is probably a real bug.   I was refactoring code in that 
area last night and may have left the SVN tree in a bad state.   Which 
svn version did you test?

-Travis