I can't reproduce this core dump. On my system Maxima 5.9
works fine for this limit both with Clisp and GCL.
What is your OS and Lisp. GCL? Which version?
Is this core dump occurs every time you execute
limit(n^n /(n+1)^(n+1),n,100); ?
(Actually I don't quite understand what this limit
stands for? It's final ratio. But this is another
story ...).
Vadim
PS: Such core dump can't be debugged
by any special Lisp methods. This is just
piece of binary code which terminated
abnormally and only some general debugging
methods are applicable in such situation.
This is not Maxima bug but rather background
Lisp problem.
Daniel Lemire wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I get a core dump with maxima 5.9.
>
> (C21) limit(n^n /(n+1)^(n+1),n,100);
>
> /usr/local/libexec/maxima/5.9.0/maxima-run-lisp: line 389: 3094 Abandon
> (core dumped) "$1" $extra_args $load_arg -eval '(run)'
>
> Expected result: any error message beside a core dump.
>
> Question: any way to debug this? I don't know lisp, but it would be nice
> to output a stacktrace.
>
> (Disclaimer: I'm not whining.)
>
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