http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions So the odds are fair your running into the SSE issue... Probably it would be a good idea to get a topic on this matter on the scipy.org wiki? -----Original Message----- From: scipy-user-bounces@scipy.org [mailto:scipy-user-bounces@scipy.org] On Behalf Of basvandijk@home.nl Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:43 PM To: SciPy Users List Subject: Re: [SciPy-user] segfault in scipy.optimize.leastsq Jelle Feringa / EZCT Architecture & Design Research wrote:

Any chance you have an older AMD processor perhaps not supporting SSE(3?)?

I have a Pentium 2 450Mhz CPU ---- Nils Wagner <nwagner@iam.uni-stuttgart.de> schrijft:

In case of a segfault I suggest to use gdb to track down the problem.

I don't know for sure if I get segmentation error. It can also be something else. _______________________________________________ SciPy-user mailing list SciPy-user@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/scipy-user