Bug 236083

Summary: illegal instruction exception on 64 bit machine
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: charles harris <charlesr.harris>
Component: atlasAssignee: Quentin Spencer <qspencer>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description charles harris 2007-04-11 20:49:22 UTC
Description of problem:

cblas_dgemm generates illegal instruction error for large arrays.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

atlas-3.6.0-10.fc5
atlas-devel-3.6.0-10.fc5


How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile
#include <atlas/cblas.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    static double a[1000*1000];
    static double b[1000*1000];
    static double c[1000*1000];
    double alpha=1, beta=0;

    cblas_dgemm(CblasRowMajor, CblasNoTrans, CblasNoTrans, 1000, 1000, 1000,
            alpha, a, 1000, b, 1000, beta, c, 1000);
    return 1;
}

2. Compile
gcc -L/usr/lib64/atlas -lcblas blas_error.c -o blas_error

3. Run
./blas_error
  
Actual results:
Illegal instruction

Expected results:
Zippo

Additional info:
This is a 64 bit problem with large arrays, it doesn't occur on 32 bit machines
or with smaller arrays. My machine is

vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 4
model name      :                   Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz

The bug also appears with Ubuntu Dapper and there is a similar report in the
octave mailing list.

Comment 1 charles harris 2007-04-13 02:25:33 UTC
Atlas-2.7.30 compiled on my machine works fine for the test program.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 06:50:56 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 19:30:21 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.