Description
Original ticket http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1462 on 2010-04-23 by @drnlm, assigned to unknown.
As pointed out by Hodgestar on #scipy
$ PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/core python
Python 2.5.5 (r255:77872, Feb 1 2010, 19:53:42)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import umath
>>> quit()
*** glibc detected *** python: corrupted double-linked list: 0x08cdc570 ***
However
$ PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/core python
Python 2.5.5 (r255:77872, Feb 1 2010, 19:53:42)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import numpy
>>> import umath
>>> quit()
$
The bug is present in numpy 1.3, but is reproducible using trunk on the sparc buildbot.