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From: Catherine M. <Cat...@jp...> - 2006-09-20 23:32:19
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No, I got the error with both 3.2.0 and 3.2.1. I originally tried 3.2.0 and that failed so I upgraded to 3.2.1. Same error. Catherine On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:29 PM, Julian Seward wrote: > > Hmm. 2.6.16 isn't exactly what you'd call an ancient and buggy kernel. > > But .. [thinks] isn't this a red herring? If 3.2.0 does > not fail on your box when running your Fortran app but 3.2.1 does, > then it has to be a regression in 3.2.1. That's what you're > saying happened, right? > > Hmm. > > J > > > On Thursday 21 September 2006 00:24, Catherine Moroney wrote: >> 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 |