[SciPy-dev] Segmentation fault triggered by optimize/lbfgsb.py

[Ed Schofield]

Travis Oliphant wrote:

>Ed Schofield wrote:
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>>The code in optimize/lbfgsb.py raises an exception and then dumps core ...
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>One part of the problem has been fixed in new scipy core. 
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I've unearthed some more problems with rank-0 arrays.

>>> import scipy       # base version '0.4.3.1366'
>>> f = scipy.array(0.0, scipy.float64)
>>> f
array(0.0)
>>> f.shape
()
>>> scipy.rank(f)
0
>>> f[0]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
IndexError: 0-d arrays can't be indexed
>>> f[0] = 10
>>> f
array(10.0)
>>> f[-1] = 10
Segmentation fault

I've committed a patch that fixes the first bug; now assigning to f[0]
throws an IndexError like reading from f[0] does.  The second bug is
still there.

Is there a way to build scipy with debugging symbols using distutils? 
If not, how would you recommend doing this?

-- Ed