[Rd] Incorrect behavior in 64-bit version (PR#11034)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

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Yes, R has been built in 64-bit mode on amd64 Solaris 10 (and it is not 
going to work on x86, is it?).  As far as I can see I used the SunStudio 
11 compilers (which the box shipped with: there is also SunStudio 12 on 
there) with

blackhawk% cat config.site
CC="cc -xc99 -xarch=amd64"
CFLAGS=-'O -xlibmieee'
F77="f95 -xarch=amd64"
FFLAGS=-O4
...

> m <- matrix(ncol=2, 1:6)
> log10(m)
           [,1]      [,2]
[1,] 0.0000000 0.6020600
[2,] 0.3010300 0.6989700
[3,] 0.4771213 0.7781513

(It's a pretty bare build, without either readline or GNU iconv.)

blackhawk% cc -V
cc: Sun C 5.8 Patch 121016-07 2007/10/03
blackhawk% f95 -V
f95: Sun Fortran 95 8.2 Patch 121020-08 2008/02/05

I suppose we are just supposed to know that '5.8'  and '8.2' mean 11.
As I recall there was a good reason why I reduced the optimization level 
-- I used -xO5 and -O5 on Sparc Solaris and the SunStudio x86_64 Linux 
compilers so I suspect that something did not work at those levels.

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> lodewijk.bonebakker at sun.com wrote:
>> Full_Name: Lodewijk Bonebakker
>> Version: v2.6.2
>> OS: Solaris, x86, snv_80
>> Submission from: (NULL) (192.18.43.225)
>>
>>
>> when I build R in 32-bit mode on my 64-bit OS, R works as expected:
>>
>> R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
>> ...
>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>>
>>
>>> m <- matrix(ncol=2,c(1:6))
>>>
>>> m
>>>
>>      [,1] [,2]
>> [1,]    1    4
>> [2,]    2    5
>> [3,]    3    6
>>
>>> n <- log10(m)
>>> n
>>>
>>           [,1]      [,2]
>> [1,] 0.0000000 0.6020600
>> [2,] 0.3010300 0.6989700
>> [3,] 0.4771213 0.7781513
>>
>>
>>
>> On a 64-bit build, uisng *only* the "-m64" to instruct the sun compilers to
>> generate a 64 bit binary, the following happens (there are no compilation
>> errors)
>>
>>
>> R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
>> ...
>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>>
>>
>>>  m <- matrix(ncol=2,c(1:6))
>>> m
>>>
>>      [,1] [,2]
>> [1,]    1    4
>> [2,]    2    5
>> [3,]    3    6
>>
>>> n <- log10(m)
>>>
>> Warning message:
>> In log(1:6, 10) : NaNs produced
>>
>>> n
>>>
>>             [,1] [,2]
>> [1,]   0.1428914    0
>> [2,]  -1.1834403    0
>> [3,]         NaN    0
>>
>>
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>>
> There is not sufficient information to go on here (with a sun.com
> address you could be expected to know better). R works fine as a 64 bit
> program on several platforms, as far as I know including Solaris, so the
> issue has to be specific to your compiler and library setup.
>
> This has all the hallmarks of a math header file error (either args or
> return value declared of the wrong type), or a linker issue (log not
> really log). I surely hope it fails "make check"!
>
> So, exactly what did you do, which compiler and build tools and which
> version?
> Did you read the http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html,
> including Appendix C?
> (Please keep R-bugs in the recipient list. I'm not the resident expert.)
>
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