On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:52:23 -0800 (PST), Sebastian Pancratz 
<s...@pancratz.org> wrote:
> After reviving the work from last September/ October with some
> significant help of Mike Hansen at Sage Days 19 a week ago, we finally
> had a version of the patch that applied cleanly to 4.3.1.rc0 (plus the
> three patches by Robert Bradshaw from #383) and, at least on my
> machine and another departmental machine, passed all doctests.
> However, when Alex Ghitza had a look at this, he noticed a doctest
> failure with his setup.  It turns out that he can already produce an
> error with the commands
> 
>     sage: R.<x> = QQ[]
>     sage: f = 3/2*x - 1/3
>     sage: %time _ = f % f
>     Error: unable to alloc/realloc memory

This is on 32-bit Arch Linux, with gcc 4.4.2.

I believe it is a 32-bit problem, because I'm not seeing the failure on
64-bit Arch Linux with the same gcc version.

By the way, if anyone wants access to the machine in question for
debugging purposes, that can be arranged by emailing me offlist.


Best,
Alex


-- 
Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne
-- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/

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