[Numpy-discussion] floating point exception weirdness

Andrew Straw strawman at astraw.com
Tue Nov 2 09:03:33 EST 2004


I hunted down the error and modified Doc/INSTALL.txt (patch below, 
please modify numarray sources) to indicate that the problem is not 
confined to Fedora Core1 but to any i386 linux with libc < 2.3.3 and 
SSE-using code.

With my newly patched and compiled libc, my system runs great, and no 
more mysterious Floating Point Exceptions!

Cheers!
Andrew

Index: Doc/INSTALL.txt
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/numpy/numarray/Doc/INSTALL.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -r1.9 INSTALL.txt
209,212c209,212
< 1. Fedora Core1 -- if compiling against GNU libc on i386 and enabling
< SSE processor functions (with something like "-march=athlon-xp") then
< libc versions above 2.3.3 will be needed.
<
---
 > 1. i386 linux -- if compiling against GNU libc on i386 and enabling
 > SSE processor functions (with something like "-march=athlon-xp" or
 > using other libraries that utilize SSE such as atlas or Intel IPP)
 > then libc version 2.3.3 or above will be needed.





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