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Re: [Bug-gsl] gsl_ran_discrete_preproc "bug"


From: Brian Gough
Subject: Re: [Bug-gsl] gsl_ran_discrete_preproc "bug"
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 11:53:56 +0100
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At Mon, 4 May 2009 15:52:49 +0200,
Srećko Jurić-Kavelj wrote:
> The problem is with bigs and smalls stack (randist/discrete.c).
> Although the same code is used when calculating the size of stacks and
> when inserting (that's when the problem manifests) in them it seems it
> works differently (FPU unit?). I've solved this temporarily with
> allocating stacks of fixed size (Kevents).

Thanks for the bug report. As you say, it does appear to be an FPU
problem causing the test to give a different result in the two cases.

I'll modify the code to use a single test.

-- 
Brian Gough
(GSL Maintainer)

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