On 12 January 2016 at 12:55, Julien Cristau wrote:
| On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 17:09:09 +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
| 
| > Le dimanche 10 janvier 2016 à 09:56 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
| > 
| > > Did you get a chance to poke?  Did you get anywhere, or did you get
| > > stuck?
| > 
| > Yes I had the time to look at it. It's indeed a compiler issue. The
| > problem goes away if one compiles with GCC 4.9 (I could not give a try
| > to GCC 6, which is not yet compiled in experimental for mips).
| > 
| It could also be a kernel issue.  Our mips hosts don't have an fpu, so
| floating point operations trap to the kernel and are emulated.  Similar
| bugs have happened before, see e.g #781892.

Good point, thanks for the reminder.

So how do we move forward? Report to gcc or fiddle with our machines?

Dirk

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