Re: [jira] Commented: (HARMONY-6316) Errors and hang when running Commons Math 2.0 test suite

[Tim Ellison <t....@gmail.com>]

Sebb,

Can you try running with the JIT disabled (-Xint) and see if the test
fails the same way?

Thanks,
Tim


On 05/Sep/2009 02:02, Sebb (JIRA) wrote:
>     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6316?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12751680#action_12751680 ] 
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> Sebb commented on HARMONY-6316:
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> I've been investigating the ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in the test EigenDecompositionImplTest.testBigMatrix().
> 
> In the file linear/EigenDecompositionImpl.java at line 1586 there is the following for loop:
> 
>     for (int i4 = 4 * end - 10 + pingPong; i4 >= 4 * start + 2 + pingPong; i4 -= 4) {
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> I found that changing this to:
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>    final int dummy = 1;
>    for (int i4 = 4 * end - 10 + pingPong; i4 >= 4 * start + 2+ pingPong; i4 -= 4) {
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> prevents the array bound error from occurring.
> 
> This suggests to me that the JVM is perhaps re-using a work register without saving/restoring it.
> The additional assignment statement somehow causes the JVM to be stricter about register usage.
> 
> I tried catching the AIOBE and printing the index.
> It was a large number (406591607) , but the other variables still had their original values.
> This again suggests the JVM may be using a stale cached value for the for loop calculations.
> 
> I suspect this may be a similar problem to the testAngles() failure.
> 
>> Errors and hang when running Commons Math 2.0 test suite
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>>
>>                 Key: HARMONY-6316
>>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6316
>>             Project: Harmony
>>          Issue Type: Bug
>>    Affects Versions: 5.0M11
>>         Environment: Maven 2.1.0
>> Win XP/SP3
>> Harmony svn = r782693, (Jun 12 2009), Windows/ia32/msvc 1310, release build
>>            Reporter: Sebb
>>         Attachments: HarmonyDoubleBug.java, surefire-log.txt, surefire-reports.zip
>>
>>
>>  I tried testing Commons Math 2.0 against Harmony r782693, (Jun 12 2009) and found a few strange bugs where variables appeared to have "impossible" values, causing array index out of bounds errors. 
>> Also, at least one test hangs:
>> Running org.apache.commons.math.geometry.RotationTest.
>> See attached Surefire output.
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