On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 07:21:39 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> 
> 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?
> 
Talk to mips people on the porter list so they can look into this?

Cheers,
Julien
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Julien Cristau          <julien.cris...@logilab.fr>
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