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Subject:

Patch for PDA_UNCMD

From:

Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]>

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Starlink development <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:22:59 -1000

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TEXT/PLAIN (15 lines) , pda_uncmnd.for (1 lines)


We recently had a problem with a segv in PDA_UNCMD. It seems the buffer
for error messages was too small. Attached is a fixed version of PDA_UNCMD
- can someone integrate this into the standard Starlink package please?

[sorry for the spam, not sure who has responsibility for this package at
the moment]

--
Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj




SUBROUTINE PDA_UNCMND (N,X0,FCN,X,F,INFO,W,LW) C***BEGIN PROLOGUE PDA_UNCMND C***DATE WRITTEN 870923 (YYMMDD) C***REVISION DATE 871222 (YYMMDD) C***CATEGORY NO. G1B1A1 C***KEYWORDS UNCONSTRAINED MINIMIZATION C***AUTHOR NASH, S.G., (GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY) C***PURPOSE PDA_UNCMND minimizes a smooth nonlinear function of n variables. C A subroutine that computes the function value at any point C must be supplied, but derivative values are not required. C PDA_UNCMND provides a simple interface to more flexible lower C level routines. User has no control over options. C C***DESCRIPTION C From the book, "Numerical Methods and Software" by C D. Kahaner, C. Moler, S. Nash C Prentice Hall, 1988 C C This routine uses a quasi-Newton algorithm with line search C to minimize the function represented by the subroutine FCN. C At each iteration, the nonlinear function is approximated C by a quadratic function derived from a Taylor series. C The quadratic function is minimized to obtain a search direction, C and an approximate minimum of the nonlinear function along C the search direction is found using a line search. The C algorithm computes an approximation to the second derivative C matrix of the nonlinear function using quasi-Newton techniques. C C The PDA_UNCMND package is quite general, and provides many options C for the user. However, this subroutine is designed to be C easy to use, with few choices allowed. For example: C C 1. Only function values need be computed. First derivative C values are obtained by finite-differencing. This can be C very costly when the number of variables is large. C C 2. It is assumed that the function values can be obtained C accurately (to an accuracy comparable to the precision of C the computer arithmetic). C C 3. At most 150 iterations are allowed. C C 4. It is assumed that the function values are well-scaled, C that is, that the optimal function value is not pathologically C large or small. C C For more information, see the reference listed below. C C PARAMETERS C ---------- C N --> INTEGER C Dimension of problem C X0(N) --> DOUBLE PRECISION C Initial estimate of minimum C FCN --> Name of routine to evaluate minimization function. C Must be declared EXTERNAL in calling routine, and C have calling sequence C SUBROUTINE FCN(N, X, F) C with N and X as here, F the computed function value. C X(N) <-- DOUBLE PRECISION C Local minimum C F <-- DOUBLE PRECISION C Function value at local minimum X C INFO <-- INTEGER C Termination code C INFO = 0: Optimal solution found C INFO = 1: Terminated with gradient small, C X is probably optimal C INFO = 2: Terminated with stepsize small, C X is probably optimal C INFO = 3: Lower point cannot be found, C X is probably optimal C INFO = 4: Iteration limit (150) exceeded C INFO = 5: Too many large steps, C function may be unbounded C INFO = -1: Insufficient workspace C W(LW) --> DOUBLE PRECISION C Workspace C LW --> INTEGER C Size of workspace, at least N*(N+10) C C***REFERENCES R.B. SCHNABEL, J.E. KOONTZ, AND BE.E. WEISS, A MODULAR C SYSTEM OF ALGORITHMS FOR UNCONSTRAINED MINIMIZATION, C REPORT CU-CS-240-82, COMP. SCI. DEPT., UNIV. OF C COLORADO AT BOULDER, 1982. C***MODIFICATION C 950404 Remove calls to XERROR, which are only level-0 messages that C duplicate information in the INFO argument. (HME). C 031020 Increase internal buffer ERRMSG size from 68 to 80. (jach::fjo) C***ROUTINES CALLED PDA_OPTDRD, XERROR C***END PROLOGUE PDA_UNCMND IMPLICIT DOUBLE PRECISION (A-H,O-Z) DIMENSION X0(N),X(N),W(LW) CHARACTER ERRMSG*80 EXTERNAL FCN, PDA_D1FCND, PDA_D2FCND C---------------------------------------------------------------- C SUBDIVIDE WORKSPACE C---------------------------------------------------------------- C***FIRST EXECUTABLE STATEMENT PDA_UNCMND IG = 1 IT = IG + N IW1 = IT + N IW2 = IW1 + N IW3 = IW2 + N IW4 = IW3 + N IW5 = IW4 + N IW6 = IW5 + N IW7 = IW6 + N IW8 = IW7 + N IA = IW8 + N LWMIN = IA + N*N-1 IF (LWMIN .GT. LW) THEN INFO = -1 WRITE(ERRMSG, '( * ''PDA_UNCMND ERROR (INFO=-1) -- INSUFFICIENT WORKSPACE'', * '', LW = '', I5 )' ) LW C CALL XERROR(ERRMSG(1:60), 60, -1, 0) RETURN END IF C---------------------------------------------------------------- C SET UP PARAMETERS FOR PDA_OPTDRD C---------------------------------------------------------------- C PARAMETERS THAT SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED WHEN USING CONDENSED CODE C C NR = PARAMETER USED TO DIVIDE WORKSPACE C METHOD = 1 (LINE SEARCH) -- DO NOT CHANGE C MSG = 9 => NO PRINTING, N=1 ALLOWED C IAGFLG = 1 => ANALYTIC GRADIENT SUPPLIED (0 OTHERWISE) C IAHFLG = 1 => ANALYTIC HESSIAN SUPPLIED (0 OTHERWISE) C IPR = DEVICE FOR OUTPUT (IRRELEVANT IN CURRENT VERSION) C DLT = (IRRELEVANT PARAMETER FOR METHOD = 1) C EPSM = MACHINE EPSILON C IEXP = 1 => FUNCTION EXPENSIVE TO EVALUATE (IEXP = 0 => CHEAP) C NR = N METHOD = 1 MSG = 9 IAGFLG = 0 IAHFLG = 0 IPR = 0 DLT = -1.0D0 EPSM = PDA_D1MACH(4) IEXP = 1 C C PARAMETERS THAT MAY BE CHANGED: C C NDIGIT = -1 => PDA_OPTDRD ASSUMES F IS FULLY ACCURATE C ITNLIM = 150 = MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ITERATIONS ALLOWED C GRADTL = ZERO TOLERANCE FOR GRADIENT, FOR CONVERGENCE TESTS C STEPMX = MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE STEP SIZE C STEPTL = ZERO TOLERANCE FOR STEP, FOR CONVERGENCE TESTS C FSCALE = TYPICAL ORDER-OF-MAGNITUDE SIZE OF FUNCTION C TYPSIZ = TYPICAL ORDER-OF-MAGNITUDE SIZE OF X (STORED IN W(LT)) C NDIGIT = -1 ITNLIM = 150 GRADTL = EPSM**(1.0D0/3.0D0) STEPMX = 0.0D0 STEPTL = SQRT(EPSM) FSCALE = 1.0D0 DO 10 LT = IT,IT+N-1 W(LT) = 1.0D0 10 CONTINUE C C MINIMIZE FUNCTION C CALL PDA_OPTDRD (NR, N, X0, FCN, PDA_D1FCND, PDA_D2FCND, + W(IT), FSCALE, + METHOD, IEXP, MSG, NDIGIT, ITNLIM, IAGFLG, IAHFLG, + IPR, DLT, GRADTL, STEPMX, STEPTL, + X, F, W(IG), INFO, W(IA), + W(IW1), W(IW2), W(IW3), W(IW4), + W(IW5), W(IW6), W(IW7), W(IW8)) C IF (INFO .EQ. 1) THEN WRITE(ERRMSG, '( * ''PDA_UNCMND WARNING -- INFO = 1'', * '': PROBABLY CONVERGED, GRADIENT SMALL'')' ) C CALL XERROR(ERRMSG(1:62), 62, INFO, 0) END IF IF (INFO .EQ. 2) THEN WRITE(ERRMSG, '( * ''PDA_UNCMND WARNING -- INFO = 2'', * '': PROBABLY CONVERGED, STEPSIZE SMALL'')' ) C CALL XERROR(ERRMSG(1:62), 62, INFO, 0) END IF IF (INFO .EQ. 3) THEN WRITE(ERRMSG, '( * ''PDA_UNCMND WARNING -- INFO = 3'', * '': CANNOT FIND LOWER POINT'')' ) C CALL XERROR(ERRMSG(1:51), 51, INFO, 0) END IF IF (INFO .EQ. 4) THEN WRITE(ERRMSG, '( * ''PDA_UNCMND WARNING -- INFO = 4'', * '': TOO MANY ITERATIONS'')' ) C CALL XERROR(ERRMSG(1:47), 47, INFO, 0) END IF IF (INFO .EQ. 5) THEN WRITE(ERRMSG, '( * ''PDA_UNCMND WARNING -- INFO = 5'', * '': TOO MANY LARGE STEPS, POSSIBLY UNBOUNDED'')' ) C CALL XERROR(ERRMSG(1:68), 68, INFO, 0) END IF C RETURN END

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