diff --git a/example/image-classification/fine-tune.py b/example/image-classification/fine-tune.py
index cfb43101542e..5a2a04d2c73b 100644
--- a/example/image-classification/fine-tune.py
+++ b/example/image-classification/fine-tune.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ def get_fine_tune_model(symbol, arg_params, num_classes, layer_name):
     num_classes: the number of classes for the fine-tune datasets
     layer_name: the layer name before the last fully-connected layer
     """
-    all_layers = sym.get_internals()
+    all_layers = symbol.get_internals()
     net = all_layers[layer_name+'_output']
     net = mx.symbol.FullyConnected(data=net, num_hidden=num_classes, name='fc')
     net = mx.symbol.SoftmaxOutput(data=net, name='softmax')
diff --git a/example/image-classification/symbols/alexnet.py b/example/image-classification/symbols/alexnet.py
index 2534797a9eba..e2b512b195c8 100755
--- a/example/image-classification/symbols/alexnet.py
+++ b/example/image-classification/symbols/alexnet.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 import mxnet as mx
 import numpy as np
 
-def get_symbol(num_classes, dtype, **kwargs):
+def get_symbol(num_classes, dtype='float32', **kwargs):
     input_data = mx.sym.Variable(name="data")
     if dtype == 'float16':
         input_data = mx.sym.Cast(data=input_data, dtype=np.float16)
diff --git a/python/mxnet/gluon/data/sampler.py b/python/mxnet/gluon/data/sampler.py
index 7bfc418399f5..f6cedf051727 100644
--- a/python/mxnet/gluon/data/sampler.py
+++ b/python/mxnet/gluon/data/sampler.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def __init__(self, length):
         self._length = length
 
     def __iter__(self):
-        indices = range(self._length)
+        indices = list(range(self._length))
         random.shuffle(indices)
         return iter(indices)
 
diff --git a/python/mxnet/ndarray/ndarray.py b/python/mxnet/ndarray/ndarray.py
index 1cd61d3545ba..c45cefaedbc0 100644
--- a/python/mxnet/ndarray/ndarray.py
+++ b/python/mxnet/ndarray/ndarray.py
@@ -370,11 +370,13 @@ def __setitem__(self, key, value):
                     len(key), len(my_shape))
             begin = [0 for _ in my_shape]
             end = [x for x in my_shape]
+            expand = []
             for i, slice_i in enumerate(key):
                 if isinstance(slice_i, integer_types):
                     assert slice_i < my_shape[i]
                     begin[i] = slice_i
                     end[i] = slice_i + 1
+                    expand.append(i)
                 elif isinstance(slice_i, py_slice):
                     # only support continuous slicing
                     assert slice_i.step is None, \
@@ -390,16 +392,14 @@ def __setitem__(self, key, value):
 
             if isinstance(value, NDArray):
                 value = value.as_in_context(self.context)
-                _internal._crop_assign(self, value, out=self,
-                                       begin=begin, end=end)
+                self._slice_assign(value, begin, end, expand)
             elif isinstance(value, numeric_types):
                 _internal._crop_assign_scalar(self, out=self,
                                               begin=begin, end=end,
                                               scalar=value)
             elif isinstance(value, (np.ndarray, np.generic)):
-                value = array(value, ctx=self.context)
-                _internal._crop_assign(self, value, out=self,
-                                       begin=begin, end=end)
+                value = array(value, ctx=self.context, dtype=self.dtype)
+                self._slice_assign(value, begin, end, expand)
             else:
                 raise TypeError(
                     'NDArray does not support assignment with %s of type %s'%(
@@ -410,6 +410,22 @@ def __setitem__(self, key, value):
                     str(key), str(type(key))))
         # pylint: enable=too-many-branches
 
+    def _slice_assign(self, value, begin, end, expand):
+        vshape = list(value.shape)
+        if expand and len(vshape) != len(begin):
+            if len(expand) + len(vshape) != len(begin):
+                sshape = [e - b for e, b in zip(end, begin)]
+                for i in reversed(expand):
+                    sshape.pop(i)
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "Cannot assign NDArray with shape %s to NDArray slice with " \
+                    "shape %s"%(str(vshape), str(sshape)))
+            for i in expand:
+                vshape.insert(i, 1)
+            value = value.reshape(vshape)
+        _internal._crop_assign(self, value, out=self,
+                               begin=begin, end=end)
+
     def __getitem__(self, key):
         """x.__getitem__(i) <=> x[i]
 
@@ -750,7 +766,10 @@ def size(self):
         >>> np.prod(x.shape)
         30
         """
-        return np.prod(self.shape)
+        size = 1
+        for i in self.shape:
+            size *= i
+        return size
 
     @property
     def context(self):
diff --git a/src/operator/tensor/matrix_op-inl.h b/src/operator/tensor/matrix_op-inl.h
index 57e201a38896..aaab7ed26320 100644
--- a/src/operator/tensor/matrix_op-inl.h
+++ b/src/operator/tensor/matrix_op-inl.h
@@ -1567,7 +1567,7 @@ void StackOpForward(const nnvm::NodeAttrs& attrs,
     for (int i = 0; i < axis; ++i) {
       leading *= outputs[0].shape_[i];
     }
-    for (index_t i = axis + 1; i < outputs[0].ndim(); ++i) {
+    for (int i = axis + 1; i < outputs[0].ndim(); ++i) {
       trailing *= outputs[0].shape_[i];
     }
     size_t mid = outputs[0].shape_[axis];
@@ -1601,7 +1601,7 @@ void StackOpBackward(const nnvm::NodeAttrs& attrs,
     for (int i = 0; i < axis; ++i) {
       leading *= inputs[0].shape_[i];
     }
-    for (index_t i = axis + 1; i < inputs[0].ndim(); ++i) {
+    for (int i = axis + 1; i < inputs[0].ndim(); ++i) {
       trailing *= inputs[0].shape_[i];
     }
     size_t mid = inputs[0].shape_[axis];
diff --git a/tests/nightly/compilation_warnings/compilation_warnings.sh b/tests/nightly/compilation_warnings/compilation_warnings.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9c377e2dd1fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/nightly/compilation_warnings/compilation_warnings.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+
+runme() {
+	cmd=$*
+	echo "$cmd"
+	$cmd
+	ret=$?
+	if [[ ${ret} != 0 ]]; then
+		echo " "
+		echo "ERROR: Return value non-zero for: $cmd"
+		echo " "
+		exit 1
+	fi
+}
+
+sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get -y install time g++-5
+runme make clean >/dev/null
+runme mkdir build
+echo "Starting make"
+cp make/config.mk .
+sed -i -e 's/gcc/gcc-5/g' config.mk
+sed -i -e 's/g++/g++-5/g' config.mk
+runme /usr/bin/time -f "%e" make -j$(nproc) &> build/compile_output.txt
+cat build/compile_output.txt
+echo "Finished make. Now processing output"
+python tests/nightly/compilation_warnings/process_output.py build/compile_output.txt
diff --git a/tests/nightly/compilation_warnings/process_output.py b/tests/nightly/compilation_warnings/process_output.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1a57d81f8dad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/nightly/compilation_warnings/process_output.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+import re
+import sys
+import operator
+
+def process_output(command_output):
+    warnings = {}
+    regex = r"(.*):\swarning:\s(.*)"
+    lines = command_output.split("\n")
+    for line in lines[:-2]:
+        matches = re.finditer(regex, line)
+        for matchNum, match in enumerate(matches):
+            try:
+                warnings[match.group()] +=1
+            except KeyError:
+                warnings[match.group()] =1
+    time = lines[-2]
+    return time, warnings
+
+def generate_stats(warnings):
+    total_count = sum(warnings.values())
+    sorted_warnings = sorted(warnings.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)
+    return sorted_warnings, total_count
+
+def print_summary(time, warnings):
+    sorted_warnings, total_count = generate_stats(warnings)
+    print "START - Compilation warnings count"
+    print total_count
+    print "END - Compilation warnings count"
+    print 'START - Compilation warnings summary'
+    print 'Time taken to compile:', time, 's'
+    print 'Total number of warnings:', total_count, '\n'
+    print 'Below is the list of unique warnings and the number of occurrences of that warning'
+    for warning, count in sorted_warnings:
+        print count, ': ', warning
+    print 'END - Compilation warnings summary'
+
+c_output = open(sys.argv[1],'r')
+time, warnings = process_output(c_output.read())
+print_summary(time, warnings)
diff --git a/tests/python/unittest/test_gluon_data.py b/tests/python/unittest/test_gluon_data.py
index 0d25cc497d32..2407f8e25991 100644
--- a/tests/python/unittest/test_gluon_data.py
+++ b/tests/python/unittest/test_gluon_data.py
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ def test_array_dataset():
 
 
 def prepare_record():
+    if not os.path.isdir("data"):
+        os.makedirs('data')
     if not os.path.isdir("data/test_images"):
         os.system("wget http://data.mxnet.io/data/test_images.tar.gz -O data/test_images.tar.gz")
         os.system("tar -xf data/test_images.tar.gz -C data")
diff --git a/tests/python/unittest/test_ndarray.py b/tests/python/unittest/test_ndarray.py
index c0ed1aef2ba3..6d036f33c0f9 100644
--- a/tests/python/unittest/test_ndarray.py
+++ b/tests/python/unittest/test_ndarray.py
@@ -76,6 +76,14 @@ def test_ndarray_setitem():
     x_np[:, 1:3, 1:2] = val.asnumpy()
     assert same(x.asnumpy(), x_np)
 
+    # short all-dim indexing
+    x = mx.nd.zeros(shape)
+    val = mx.nd.ones((3, 2))
+    x[:, 1:3, 1] = val
+    x_np = np.zeros(shape, dtype=x.dtype)
+    x_np[:, 1:3, 1] = val.asnumpy()
+    assert same(x.asnumpy(), x_np)
+
     x = mx.nd.zeros(shape)
     x[:, 1:3, 1] = 1
     x_np = np.zeros(shape, dtype=x.dtype)
@@ -258,6 +266,7 @@ def test_ndarray_slice():
     assert A[1,2,3,4,5].asscalar() == A2[1,2,3,4,5]
 
 
+
 def test_ndarray_crop():
     # get crop
     x = mx.nd.ones((2, 3, 4))