bad news ?



Dear friends of maxima,

As far as I understand, Dr. Shelter announced
the fix of the 10000! bug?

Extract of a session with the maxima snapshot
of april, the 27th:

[daniel@georgette ~]$ maxima
GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  Version(2.3.8) ven avr 27 18:57:43 CEST 2001
Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
Contains Enhancements by W. Schelter
Maxima 5.5 ven avr 27 18:57:36 CEST 2001 (with enhancements by W. Schelter).
Licensed under the GNU Public License (see file COPYING)
(C1) alloc(4);

(D1)                               ALLOC(4)
(C2) 10000!;


Error: Out of bignum stack space, (si::MULTIPLY-BIGNUM-STACK n) to grow
Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging
Error signalled by CATCH.
Broken at MACSYMA-TOP-LEVEL.  Type :H for Help.
MAXIMA>>:t

(C3) 

Best regards.
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Daniel Duparc <dduparc@club-internet.fr>
29 av. de la Commune de Paris
94400 Vitry sur Seine (France)