Re: 2 fail with tip chol.cc

[Jarno Rajahalme]

On Jan 21, 2011, at 19:16 , ext Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> 
> Yes, some ATLASes have a buggy CHERK, that's a recurring issue. I
> don't think your patch actually helps in all cases, because I've seen
> stuff like CHERK creating (NaN, 0) on the diagonal :(
> This is really something that should be fixed in ATLAS (and maybe it
> was fixed, I never got around to try the development version).
> 
> In any case, if you're making a workaround that decreases performance,
> even if only slightly (such as in this case), I suppose you should
> better mark it as a workaround, because it's unlikely that someone
> will be able to undo the change later.

I guess it would be too much trouble to check for the bug in configure and only 
work around if needed?

  Jarno