[Numpy-discussion] Release blockers for 1.4.0 ?

[Charles R Harris]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:31 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:24 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> There are a few issues which have been found on numpy 1.4.0, which worry
> >> me:
> >>
> >> # 1317: segfaults for integer division overflow
> >> # 1318: all FPU exceptions ignored by default
> >>
> >> #1318 worries me the most: I think it is a pretty serious regression,
> >> since things like this go unnoticed:
> >>
> >> x = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4]) / 0 # x is an array of 0, no warning printed
> >>
> >
> > Hasn't that always been the case? Unless we have a way to raise
> exceptions
> > from ufuncs I don't know what else we can do.
>
> No, it is a consequence of errors being set to ignored in numpy.ma:
>
>
> http://projects.scipy.org/gitweb?p=numpy;a=blob;f=numpy/ma/core.py;h=f28a5738efa6fb6c4cbf0b3479243b0d7286ae32;hb=master#l107
>
> So the fix is easy - but then it shows many (> 500) invalid values,
> etc... related to wrong fpu handling (most of them are limited to the
> new polynomial code, though).
>
>
Umm, no. Just four, and easily fixed as I explicitly relied on the
behaviour. After the fix and seterror(all='raise'):

FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=4, SKIP=11, errors=47, failures=1)

No errors in polynomial, however.

Chuck
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