blas error and crash when doing ldivide/rdivide of a scalar by a vector

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 14, 2008, at 4:07 AM, Michael Goffioul wrote:

> On 1/14/08, Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com> wrote:
>> Based upon the posts below, it may be that the lapack-3.1.0 sources
>> are fixed
>>
>>       https://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-forum/viewtopic.php?t=80&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=dgelsd
>>       https://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-forum/viewtopic.php?t=278
>>
>> I'll try to verify. In the meanwhile, if someone knows what version
>> they are using and is failing/working, please let me know.
>
> I'm using LAPACK-3.1.1 lite and I have the problem:
>
>    ones (1, 739) \ 1  -> OK
>    ones (1, 740) \ 1  -> fails
>
> It's under Windows XP with MSVC, but I don't know if it makes
> any difference.
>
> Michael.

That's unfortunate.

hmmm ... I don't suppose there is a chance older versions didn't have  
this problem? I did check 3.0.0 and it suffers as well.

Ben