5.9.0rc3 build failure in numerical/slatec/zbesy.lisp, gcl 2.4.3, gcc 3.2

Greetings!

Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> writes:

> >>>>> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com> writes:
> 
>     Camm> Greetings!
>     Camm> 1) Thanks for your report!
>     Camm> 2) If you suspect GCL, please cc gcl-devel@gnu.org
>     Camm> 3) I just built maxima cvs with gcl-2.4.3 on gcc-3.2 without issue. 
>     Camm> 4) I advise everyone to stay away from gcc-2.96 -- if it works, its an
>     Camm>    accident.  The compiler is known to be broken.  gcc-2.95, gcc-3.0,
>     Camm>    gcc-3.1 and gcc-3.2 all should work with GCL cvs or the latest
>     Camm>    stable. 
> 
>     Camm> 5) The error below comes from trying to print a NaN or Inf.  The
>     Camm>    handling for this case has been slightly changed in CVS, but the
> 
> Do you know why it's trying to print out a NaN or Inf?  I don't think
> that code could do that.  If gcl thinks there is, it seems to me that
> gcl is overflowing somewhere that it shouldn't.
> 

This is my conclusion as well, and is why I don't think the recent CVS
changes to print.d will help.  Something else in CVS might, but I
cannot confirm that the problem even exists at all.

Take care,

> Ray
> 
> 

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