Kenneth Hoste added the comment:
Fully agreed that this is not something that should be fixed in the Python code
base.
Moreover, the problem has been fixed in Intel compilers 2018 update 3 as far as
I can tell (tested with both Python 3.6.4 and 3.7.0rc1).
I can't reproduce the pr
Kenneth Hoste added the comment:
After a bit of back and forth, we have figured out the underlying cause for the
problem with the Intel compiler: if the stack limit is not set to a specific
value (see output of "ulimit -s"), the Intel compilers fail with a segfault or
Interal Comp
Kenneth Hoste added the comment:
@William: someone in the EasyBuild community seems to have figured out the
culprit, and came up with a patch to work around the problem, see
https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/6447/files#diff-bdbfca2206414b3b37794b77c0abb8e8
.
Any
Kenneth Hoste added the comment:
Willian: on which OS and (Intel?) processor generation are you seeing this?
We're not seeing this on CentOS 7.4.1708 with Python 3.6.4 and icc 18.0.1.163
on Intel Haswell or Intel Skylake.
We have seen this with other software on Intel Skylake though...
