From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Jul 19 12:48:05 2006
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:48:05 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] illegal operation in debian (PR#9086)
Message-ID: <20060719104805.1C72E54C38@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, agustin.perez at umh.es wrote:

> Full_Name: Agustin Perez
> Version: 2.3.1
> OS: Debian 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic
> Submission from: (NULL) (193.147.142.6)
> 
> 
> First of all excuses for my bad use of english and thanks for read my problem.
> 
> Well when I do the following comand in R suddenly crashes and exit me for the
> enviroment:
> 
> > a<-matrix(1:13500,450,30)
> > a%*%t(a)
> 
>  *** caught illegal operation ***
> address 0x2a9590086f, cause 'illegal operand'
> 
> Possible actions:
> 1: abort (with core dump)
> 2: normal R exit
> 3: exit R without saving workspace
> 4: exit R saving workspace
> Selection: 3
> 
> 
> I don't know what is the problem.

Quite likely using a BLAS inappropriate for the chip in use.

If you choose 1 and examine the core dump with gdb you will be able to 
tell us where the illegal operand occurred.

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[Rd] illegal operation in debian (PR#9086)
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