Bug involving permutedims function

I’m having a problem when trying to use the permutedims function on a quite fresh install of julia 1.4.1 on Ubuntu.
Here is the error message I get:

julia> permutedims(randn(2,2,2),(1,3,2))
Illegal inttoptr
      %33 = ptrtoint double addrspace(13)* %32 to i64
Illegal inttoptr
      %64 = inttoptr i64 %63 to i8 addrspace(13)*

signal (6): Abandon
in expression starting at none:0
gsignal at /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (unknown line)
abort at /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (unknown line)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f02504d9d04)
_ZN4llvm13FPPassManager13runOnFunctionERNS_8FunctionE at /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-8.so.1 (unknown line)
_ZN4llvm13FPPassManager11runOnModuleERNS_6ModuleE at /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-8.so.1 (unknown line)
_ZN4llvm6legacy15PassManagerImpl3runERNS_6ModuleE at /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-8.so.1 (unknown line)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f02505c3ac1)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f02505c62d8)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f02505c68cd)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f0250501b4a)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f0250533082)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f025055884b)
jl_apply_generic at /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjulia.so.1 (unknown line)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f025056b75b)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f025056b389)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f025056b8f0)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f025056c9c8)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f025056d616)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f0250585e08)
jl_toplevel_eval_in at /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjulia.so.1 (unknown line)
eval at ./boot.jl:331 [inlined]
repleval at /home/goulart/.julia/packages/Atom/isnka/src/repl.jl:196
#246 at /home/goulart/.julia/packages/Atom/isnka/src/repl.jl:223
with_logstate at ./logging.jl:398
with_logger at ./logging.jl:505 [inlined]
evalrepl at /home/goulart/.julia/packages/Atom/isnka/src/repl.jl:214
unknown function (ip: 0x7f025056b75b)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f025056b389)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f025056b8f0)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f025056c9c8)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f025056d616)
unknown function (ip: 0x7f0250585e08)
jl_toplevel_eval_in at /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjulia.so.1 (unknown line)
eval at ./boot.jl:331
eval_user_input at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/REPL/src/REPL.jl:86
macro expansion at /build/julia-98cBbp/julia-1.4.1+dfsg/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.4/REPL/src/REPL.jl:118 [inlined]
#26 at ./task.jl:358
unknown function (ip: 0x7f0250570cbb)
unknown function (ip: (nil))
Allocations: 33604469 (Pool: 33598407; Big: 6062); GC: 30

Apparently, this is an old bug that was addressed a couple of years ago, according to this post: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/28388.

However, I’m having exactly the same issue here. I cannot find any other reference to this problem online.

Does someone have an idea of what I could do to fix this issue? This is quite annoying, since I have several functions that rely on permutedims.

Any help is appreciated.

Did you install Julia via apt? If so, try using the generic Linux binaries from julialang.org. The version of Julia in apt is not official, and it seems to have some problems. This looks a lot like Abnormally exit after executed a very simple expression - #5 by rdeits

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Yes, I think I did.

Ok, thanks for this tip. I was not aware of this issue.

Thanks, this solved my problem!