[SciPy-Dev] cephes_smirnov never returns on mips/sparc/...

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

well -- imho it should have not even got to that point if e is
NaN.  Just started rebuilding with following patch:

-  if (n <= 0 || e < 0.0 || e > 1.0)
+  # This comparison should assure returning NaN whenever
+  # e is NaN itself.  In original || form it would proceed
+  if !(n > 0 && e >= 0.0 && e <= 1.0)
     return (NPY_NAN);


On eri, 30 Mar 2012, Pnuli Virtanen wrote:

> Hi,

> 30.03.2012 22:37, Yaroslav Halchenko kirjoitti:
> > ok -- here is the reason:

> > (gdb) print e
> > $27 = nan(0x8000000000000)
> > (gdb) print ((double) n * (1.0 - e)) 
> > $26 = nan(0x100000001)
> > (gdb) print (floor ((double) n * (1.0 - e)))
> > $25 = 2146435073

> Thanks a lot:

> kolmogorov.c:41
> 	nn = (int) (floor ((double) n * (1.0 - e)));

> This is just wrong -- if `e` happens to be NAN, the result of the
> integer cast is unspecified (as per C99 standard).

> Probably there should be a blanket input finiteness check in most of the
> routines. I'd be willing to bet that this is not the only bug of this
> type in there. Detecting these automatically would require some control
> flow analysis, so I guess the only option is to go through each function
> manually :/

> 	Pauli


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