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Hi xiaoyafeng,

Yes, I'm seeing the same errors in relation to %extra and $codestr with PDL-2.059 on perl-5.34.0.
I've just filed a report at https://github.com/PDLPorters/pdl/issues/345.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^3: PDL 2.058 released
by etj (Chaplain) on Nov 08, 2021 at 15:49 UTC
    Unfortunately the line numbers are a bit misleading, and the error is nothing to do with %extra etc. The error is actually happening on a call to log10() when passed a PDL_Byte (unsigned char) and I think PDL_Ushort (unsigned short). I believe it's a compiler/libc bug of some sort.
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      In fact, it's due to a new-ish change in GCC-land; on some versions, tgmath (type-generic maths) works fine for log10, but it seems they've changed that. Furthermore, clog10 (the complex version) is actually a GNU extension rather than part of C99, so I've adjusted ops.pd accordingly (and if there's no clog10 available, you can't do log10 on complex numbers, sorry - but it was ever thus).

      I've just released PDL 2.060 which I believe fixes this, so please give it a try.

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        2.060 tests fine - but I don't know precisely what it was that changed from the earlier versions of gcc/runtime in relation to log10 - nor whether it was a change for the best, or a bug.
        Do you have a simple C script that demonstrates this change ?
        Mingw's complex.h includes clog10() beginning with Strawberry's release of perl-5.30.0 (gcc-8.3.0, runtime 6.0), so it should be available to these Windows builds, and onwards.

        Cheers,
        Rob
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      I'm sure it's a compiler/libc bug, but the good news is I'm now able to reproduce it locally, so a fix should be available in due course.
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