On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> This is with reference to issue  #5626
> <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/5626>. Currently linalg.norm
> converts the input like so `x = asarray(x)`. This can produce integer
> arrays, which in turn may create problems of overflow, or the failure of
> the abs functions for minimum values of signed integer types. I propose to
> convert the input to a minimum precision of float32. However, this will be
> a change in behavior. I'd guess that that might not be much of a problem,
> as otherwise it is likely that this problem would have been reported
> earlier.
>
> Thoughts?
>

Not sure if it makes sense here, but elsewhere (I think it was polyval) we
let object arrays through unchanged.

Jaime

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