[Rd] Matrix inner product crashes on x86_64 (PR#8715)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

Not reproducible for me (and do you really think that something as simple 
as this would not have been found on x86_64 long before now?)

This is almost certainly caused by your use of an inappropriate external 
BLAS.  Something has probably been compiled for a different processor than 
the one you are using, since illegal instructions are a compiler (not R) 
issue that I have seen quite often on ix86 systems when this happened.

Use --without-blas when recompiling R and see if it then works.

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, jtlindgr at cs.helsinki.fi wrote:

>
> Matrix inner product seems to crash R2.2.1 on a 64bit arch.
> More precisely, the crash happens atleast if the matrix is
> non-square. The bug can be reproduced (atleast here) with
>
> bash$ bin/R
>> X<-matrix(data=0,nrow=100,ncol=10);
>> mat<-X%*%t(X);
> Illegal instruction
> bash$
>
> The crash doesnt happen if the matrix is specified square,
> e.g. 10x10. The underlying OS was
>
> Linux version 2.6.12-xeon-csl3 (root at chuck) (gcc version 3.4.5 20050809 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 3.4.4-6ubuntu8)) #1 SMP Wed Feb 22 18:34:17 EET 2006
>
> and its running on Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 3.66GHz.
>
> I configured R from the source tar.gz myself; each phase of
> "./configure --with-x=no ; make ; make install"
> passed without aborting on any errors.
>
>
> Cheers,
> J.
>
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