[Numpy-discussion] ANN: Numpy 1.6.0 release candidate 1

[Christoph Gohlke]

On 4/30/2011 4:58 PM, Charles R Harris wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com <mailto:charlesr.harris at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         I get a null pointer access violation during numpy.test() with all
>         msvc9/MKL builds for win32 (not win-amd64). The crash occurs during
>         test_result_type() in test_numeric.py and can be reduced to the
>         following code:
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>         > >> import numpy as np
>         > >> np.result_type(np.array([np.float32(0)]), np.complex128(0))
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>         np.float64(0) and np.float16(0) also crash. Unfortunately the debug
>         builds do not crash.
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>     This is new, right?
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> Does it depend on the optimization level?
>
> Chuck
>

Yes it's new. The pure msvc9 builds without MKL also crash. The crash 
disapperars When compiling with /Od (disable optimization) instead of 
/Ox (maximum optimization; the default for distutils).

Christoph