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FFTW FAQ - Section 5 <br>
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<li><a href="#rfftwndbug" rel=subdocument>Q5.1. FFTW 1.1 crashes in rfftwnd on Linux.</a>
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<li><a href="#fftwmpibug" rel=subdocument>Q5.2. The MPI transforms in FFTW 1.2 give incorrect results/leak
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<li><a href="#testsingbug" rel=subdocument>Q5.3. The test programs in FFTW 1.2.1 fail when I change FFTW to use single
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<li><a href="#teststoobig" rel=subdocument>Q5.4. The test program in FFTW 1.2.1 fails for n >
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<li><a href="#linuxthreads" rel=subdocument>Q5.5. The threaded code fails on Linux Redhat 5.0</a>
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<li><a href="#bigrfftwnd" rel=subdocument>Q5.6. FFTW 2.0's rfftwnd fails for rank > 1 transforms with a final
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dimension >= 65536.</a>
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<li><a href="#primebug" rel=subdocument>Q5.7. FFTW 2.0's complex transforms give the wrong results with prime
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<li><a href="#mpichbug" rel=subdocument>Q5.8. FFTW 2.1.1's MPI test programs crash with
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<li><a href="#aixthreadbug" rel=subdocument>Q5.9. FFTW 2.1.2's multi-threaded transforms don't work on
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<li><a href="#bigprimebug" rel=subdocument>Q5.10. FFTW 2.1.2's complex transforms give incorrect results for large prime
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<li><a href="#solaristhreadbug" rel=subdocument>Q5.11. FFTW 2.1.3's multi-threaded transforms don't give any speedup on
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<li><a href="#aixflags" rel=subdocument>Q5.12. FFTW 2.1.3 crashes on AIX.</a>
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<h2><A name="rfftwndbug">
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Question 5.1. FFTW 1.1 crashes in rfftwnd on
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This bug was fixed in FFTW 1.2. There was a bug in
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<code>rfftwnd</code> causing an incorrect amount of memory to be allocated. The bug showed
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up in Linux with libc-5.3.12 (and nowhere else that we know of).
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<h2><A name="fftwmpibug">
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Question 5.2. The MPI transforms in FFTW 1.2 give incorrect
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These bugs were corrected in FFTW 1.2.1. The MPI transforms (really,
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just the transpose routines) in FFTW 1.2 had bugs that could cause
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errors in some situations.
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<h2><A name="testsingbug">
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Question 5.3. The test programs in FFTW 1.2.1 fail when I change FFTW
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to use single precision.
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This bug was fixed in FFTW 1.3. (Older versions of FFTW did
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work in single precision, but the test programs didn't--the error
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tolerances in the tests were set for double precision.)
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<h2><A name="teststoobig">
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Question 5.4. The test program in FFTW 1.2.1 fails for n >
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This bug was fixed in FFTW 1.3. FFTW 1.2.1 produced the right answer,
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but the test program was wrong. For large n, n*n in the naive
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transform that we used for comparison overflows 32 bit integer
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precision, breaking the test.
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<h2><A name="linuxthreads">
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Question 5.5. The threaded code fails on Linux Redhat
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We had problems with glibc-2.0.5. The code should work with
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<h2><A name="bigrfftwnd">
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Question 5.6. FFTW 2.0's rfftwnd fails for rank > 1 transforms
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with a final dimension >= 65536.
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This bug was fixed in FFTW 2.0.1. (There was a 32-bit integer
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overflow due to a poorly-parenthesized expression.)
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<h2><A name="primebug">
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Question 5.7. FFTW 2.0's complex transforms give the wrong results
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with prime factors 17 to 97.
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There was a bug in the complex transforms that could cause incorrect
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results under (hopefully rare) circumstances for lengths with
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intermediate-size prime factors (17-97). This bug was fixed in FFTW
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<h2><A name="mpichbug">
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Question 5.8. FFTW 2.1.1's MPI test programs crash with
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This bug was fixed in FFTW 2.1.2. The 2.1/2.1.1 MPI test programs
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crashed when using the MPICH implementation of MPI with the
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<code>ch_p4</code> device (TCP/IP); the transforms themselves worked fine.
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<h2><A name="aixthreadbug">
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Question 5.9. FFTW 2.1.2's multi-threaded transforms don't work on
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This bug was fixed in FFTW 2.1.3. The multi-threaded transforms in
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previous versions didn't work with AIX's
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<code>pthreads</code> implementation, which idiosyncratically creates threads in detached
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(non-joinable) mode by default.
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<h2><A name="bigprimebug">
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Question 5.10. FFTW 2.1.2's complex transforms give incorrect results
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for large prime sizes.
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This bug was fixed in FFTW 2.1.3. FFTW's complex-transform algorithm
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for prime sizes (in versions 2.0 to 2.1.2) had an integer overflow
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problem that caused incorrect results for many primes greater than
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32768 (on 32-bit machines). (Sizes without large prime factors are
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<h2><A name="solaristhreadbug">
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Question 5.11. FFTW 2.1.3's multi-threaded transforms don't give any
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This bug was fixed in FFTW 2.1.4. (By default, Solaris creates
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threads that do not parallelize over multiple processors, so one has
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to request the proper behavior specifically.)
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Question 5.12. FFTW 2.1.3 crashes on AIX.
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The FFTW 2.1.3 <code>configure</code> script picked incorrect compiler flags for the <code>xlc</code> compiler on newer IBM processors. This
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is fixed in FFTW 2.1.4. <hr>
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Back: <a href="section4.html" rev=precedes>Internals of FFTW</a>.<br>
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<a href="index.html" rev=subdocument>Return to contents</a>.<p>
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<A href="http://www.fftw.org">Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson</A> / <A href="mailto:fftw@fftw.org">fftw@fftw.org</A>
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Extracted from FFTW Frequently Asked Questions with Answers,
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Copyright © 2006 Matteo Frigo and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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