Intel IPP status 3 (ippStsSqrtNegArg): meaning and diagnosis

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Description: ippStsSqrtNegArg means an Intel IPP square-root operation received one or more negative input values.

Could be also:
Constant	Type	OS
ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND	Win32 error	Windows
STATUS_WAIT_3	NTSTATUS	Windows
KERN_NO_SPACE	Kern return	Mac
ESRCH	errno	Any
INVALID_AFFINITY_SET	BugCheck Code	Windows

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ippStsSqrtNegArg

The square-root input violates the primitive's real-valued domain

ippStsSqrtNegArg reports that an Intel IPP square-root primitive encountered one or more negative argument values where that operation expects a nonnegative real input. The status concerns the data passed to the Sqrt function, not the mathematical history of roots.

What to inspect

Identify the exact IPP Sqrt primitive, data type, source buffer, ROI or vector length, and the first negative sample.
Check upstream normalization, subtraction, variance, or rounding steps that can produce a small negative value unexpectedly.
If negative values are valid application data, choose an algorithm whose domain represents them rather than silently applying abs().

Recovery boundary

Correct the producer or validate/clamp only according to the application's numeric contract, then rerun the same primitive. A domain violation should not be hidden by unrelated buffer or alignment changes.

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