Re: [Gretl-users] eigensym() issue?
On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> Am 11.12.2015 um 17:24 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
>
>>
>> The crash was occurring in libopenblas.dll. I have now updated the
>> openblas library packaged in the 64-bit Windows build from version
>> 0.2.14 to 0.2.16.dev. On my Core i7 laptop running Windows 8 that fixes
>> the problem. (I could replicate the crash when using the previous
>> openblas DLL; now the test script runs OK.)
>
> I hope the "dev" in the name doesn't mean that there are now new bugs
> leading to unrelated crashes.... What I'm saying is, do your other test
> scripts also run ok?
All my tests run OK with 0.2.16.dev on Linux.
I should add, before the next release (which should probably be
fairly soon) I'll look into this more carefully.
The fact that the crash occurred inside libopenblas.dll doesn't
actually prove that openblas was to blame. It's conceivable that
gretl was feeding duff arguments to the library -- although that
seems unlikely given that an openblas update fixed the problem.
I'll also check out the openblas changelog and see if there's a
"latest stable" version that contains the fix in question; we may
not want to be using a "dev" version if there's a good alternative.
Allin