Re: [Numpy-discussion] debian floating point exceptions/numpy/f2py -- sse

2006-07-14 Thread Andrew Jaffe
David Cournapeau wrote: > Andrew Jaffe wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I have just switched from RHEL to debian, and all of a sudden I started >> getting floating point exception errors in various contexts. >> >> Apparently, this has to do with some faulty error stuff in glibc, >> specifically related to

Re: [Numpy-discussion] debian floating point exceptions/numpy/f2py -- sse

2006-07-14 Thread Andrew Straw
GNU libc version 2.3.2 has a bug[1] "feclearexcept() error on CPUs with SSE" (fixed in 2.3.3) which has been submitted to Debian[2] but not fixed in sarge. See http://www.its.caltech.edu/~astraw/coding.html#id3 for more information and .debs which fix the problem. [1] http://sources.redhat.com/bu

Re: [Numpy-discussion] debian floating point exceptions/numpy/f2py -- sse

2006-07-14 Thread David Cournapeau
Andrew Jaffe wrote: > Hi All, > > I have just switched from RHEL to debian, and all of a sudden I started > getting floating point exception errors in various contexts. > > Apparently, this has to do with some faulty error stuff in glibc, > specifically related to the sse. I would prefer to fix t