Re: [Valgrind-users] run_innerloop error

[Catherine M. <Cat...@jp...>]

Here's my kernel version number:

cm...@si...:/data/L2TC/cmm/stereo_special_runs/larry 
[80]>uname -rv
2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 #1 SMP Wed Apr 19 05:14:26 EDT 2006

Catherine

On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Julian Seward wrote:

>
>>> Are you doing something strange with floating point rounding, or
>>> other IEEE control word stuff (precision, exception handling) ?
>>
>> We've been seeing it on amd64 machines - see my postings on the
>> developer list a few months ago for details.
>>
>> What I see is the FPU control word changing precision from 64 bit
>> to 80 bit if I recall correctly. I'm pretty sure it's a kernel
>> bug though
>
> Ah, well remembered.  Now you point it out that does sound vaguely
> familiar.
>
> Catherine, what kernel version are you using?  It would be interesting
> to know if it's in the same ballpark as the ones Tom saw this
> problem on.
>
> J