[Numpy-discussion] OS X PPC problem with Numpy 1.3.0b1

[Pauli Virtanen]

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:32:47 -0500, Bruce Southey wrote:
[clip: crashes with longdouble on Windows 64]
> No.
> 
> I get a problem with using longdouble as that is the dtype that causes
> the  TestPower.test_large_types to crash. Also, np.finfo(np.float128)
> crashes. I can assign and multiple longdoubles and take the square root
> but not use the power '**'.
>  >>> y=np.longdouble(2)
>  >>> y
> 2.0
>  >>> y**1
> 2.0
>  >>> y**2
> crash

Ok, this looks a bit tricky, I have no idea what's going on. Why does it 
not crash with the exponent 1...

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Pauli Virtanen