svm seg faults (PR#1901)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On 19 Aug 2002, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk writes:
>
> > Which compiler is this?
> >
> > I have no problems with svm() on RH7.2 compiling with either gcc 3.1 or
> > gcc 2.95.3: Red Hat make a habit of supplying unreleased (and buggy)
> > versions of gcc. I think this is particularly critical when C/C++ mixtures
> > are used (as in svm).
> >
> > PR#1178 is another non-reproducible segfault in svm on Linux.
>
> It *is* reproducible on another stock RH7.3, though. I might try
> digging a little deeper when I recover from the NY/Boston meetings.

I still think it is the compiler.


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