On   04/19/10 - 12:29:01, Christopher Schwan wrote:
Hi,

as some of us know there a lot of failures on amd64 when running Sage's set of tests. Now I found out that pari caused some of these (I dont know exactly how many, but I will do a full test run later), because it was compiled without "-
fno-strict-aliasing". I have written a bug report for that:

- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316139

In short: Add -fno-strict-aliasing to your CFLAGS and recompile pari and there
should be less failing tests.

Cheers,

Christopher


Christopher,

This is significant! I'm listing test results here for comparison (pari w/ USE=gmp):

Failures with CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" and CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" on a single processor laptop:

sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/doc/en/constructions/plotting.rst"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/combinat/iet/strata.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/interfaces/gp.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/libs/pari/gen.pyx"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/symbolic/expression.pyx"
sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/gsl/probability_distribution.pyx"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/lfunctions/lcalc.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/plot/plot.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/graphs/digraph.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/graphs/graph.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/misc/dist.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/misc/cython.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/misc/package.py"
sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/functions/transcendental.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/functions/special.py"
sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/modules/vector_real_double_dense.pyx" sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/modules/vector_double_dense.pyx"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/modular/modsym/space.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/matrix/matrix1.pyx"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/sets/set.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/numerical/optimize.py"

Failures with CFLAGS="-march=opteron -O2 -pipe" and CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" on a dual processor, dual core desktop:

sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/doc/en/constructions/plotting.rst"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/misc/cython.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/misc/package.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/misc/dist.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/symbolic/expression.pyx"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/lfunctions/sympow.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/lfunctions/lcalc.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/combinat/iet/strata.py"
sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/combinat/words/suffix_trees.py" # Killed/crashed sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/combinat/posets/hasse_diagram.py" # Killed/crashed
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/interfaces/gp.py"
sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/categories/coxeter_groups.py" # Killed/crashed sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/categories/finite_coxeter_groups.py" # Killed/crashed
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/matrix/matrix1.pyx"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/plot/plot.py"
sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/modular/hecke/submodule.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/modular/abvar/abvar.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/modular/modsym/space.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/sets/set.py"
sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/ell_rational_field.py" sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/modules/vector_double_dense.pyx" sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/modules/vector_real_double_dense.pyx" sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/graphs/graph_list.py" # Killed/crashed
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/graphs/digraph.py"
sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/graphs/cliquer.pyx" # Killed/crashed
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/graphs/graph.py"
sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/gsl/probability_distribution.pyx"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/numerical/optimize.py"
sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/geometry/polyhedra.py" # Killed/crashed
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/libs/pari/gen.pyx"
sage -t -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/functions/transcendental.py"
        sage -t  -force_lib "devel/sage/sage/functions/special.py

All of the tests with "Killed/crashed" passed on the desktop when pari was built without
"-fno-strict-aliasing".

Steve

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