dropped type tag

[mjakl]

Consider the example in https://gist.github.com/1916540, when I run it, I get the following output:
Returning: 24.186773244895647
Got: 4627501189117941816

Uncommenting line 31 (clusterError = clusterError) gives the following output:
Returning: 24.186773244895647
Got: 24.186773244895647

It seems that Julia somewhere loses track of the clusterError return value used in line 29.

I've reduced the example in https://gist.github.com/1916540 as much as possible, so the code itself is awkward and not very useful, but captures the problem.

I've tried the example on the provided Mac OS X build (Commit a9647ab (2012-02-20 12:10:02))

[JeffBezanson]

4627501189117941816 is the value of the binary representation of 24.186773244895647, so it looks like the compiler is dropping a type somehow.

[JeffBezanson]

This seems to work for me now; at the rate we're going 2/20 is pretty old now. Do you have the ability to build from source to try this with the latest version? If not, hopefully we'll update the binaries soon and you can try it again then.

[mjakl]

At least on Linux the bug seems fixed. I haven't got everything set up to compile Julia on Mac OS X right now, but if there is a new binary distribution I'll verify it.
Thanks! Closing for now.