Re: Help needed: r-base fails with its Bessel functions
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:30:13AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:29:43AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:50:21AM +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > > >Could you Arm experts look into this? Is there a genuine Arm floating point
> > > >issue hiding?
> > >
> > > Maybe. ARM has a wacky format for storing doubles, so if R wants to poke
> > > around with the actual binary representation of floating point numbers it will
> > > probably run into trouble.
> >
> > Note that a) r-base 0.90 compiled fine (since then we used to require Atlas
> > to build, so that never happened on too many archs, now re-designed) abd b)
> > R has a gazillion other regression tests that would fail.
> >
> > I suspect it is either the src/nmath/bessel* code, or its interaction with
> > libc. Recall that the segment which failed passed NaN, NaN around as
> > arguments.
>
> What kernel is on the machine attempting to build? IIRC there were NaN
> bugs in NWFPE 0.94 (or whatever is with 2.2.18) that are fixed in the next
> NWFPE (whatever is in 2.4.0). Russell backported the later NWFPE to 2.2.19
Don't know. Could someelse help? Would it be worth my while to try again?
> [bugs were specifically that some comparison operators, (including LE, IIRC)
> were not behaving correctly when NaN was one of the arguments.]
Dirk
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