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

[jtlindgr at cs.Helsinki.FI]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> 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.

Thank you for the prompt reply. Disabling the external BLAS fixed
the problem as you suspected. 

(As a minor curiosity, the problem was not caught by any tests 
ran by make check or make check-all -- but I do not presume here 
to speculate or guess whether the tests try out any such matrix 
calculations or not.). :)


Thanks again,
J.


> 
> 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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> > Version:
> > platform = x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> > arch = x86_64
> > os = linux-gnu
> > system = x86_64, linux-gnu
> > status =
> > major = 2
> > minor = 2.1
> > year = 2005
> > month = 12
> > day = 20
> > svn rev = 36812
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