Re: [Rd] Bug in nlm, found using sem; failure in several flavors (PR#13883)

2009-08-12 Thread Peter Dalgaard
William Dunlap wrote: Running his example under valgrind (a memory misuse checker on Linux) does show it using memory it should not be using in the optimization C code around where it is copying the gradient vector. The ==10916== Invalid read of size 1 ==10916==at 0x400686D: memcpy (mc_r

Re: [Rd] Bug in nlm, found using sem; failure in several flavors (PR#13883)

2009-08-10 Thread Peter Dalgaard
William Dunlap wrote: From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ben Bolker Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 12:52 PM To: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Bug in nlm, found using sem; failure in several flavors (PR#13883) A wild guess

Re: [Rd] Bug in nlm, found using sem; failure in several flavors (PR#13883)

2009-08-10 Thread William Dunlap
> From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ben Bolker > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 12:52 PM > To: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Bug in nlm, found using sem; failure in > several flavors (PR#13883) > > >

Re: [Rd] Bug in nlm, found using sem; failure in several flavors (PR#13883)

2009-08-10 Thread Ben Bolker
A wild guess, based on some recent "non-deterministic" behavior in lme4: could this be driven by a bug in optimized linear algebra libraries (BLAS/LAPACK)? (Unfortunately, I'm not clear on how to check the versions of BLAS/LAPACK being used and whether they are subject to bugs, but perhaps so

Re: [Rd] Bug in nlm, found using sem; failure in several flavors (PR#13883)

2009-08-08 Thread adik
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