forwarded 172208 maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
thanks
Greetings! I've confirmed this is still an error with gcl/maxima cvs:
=============================================================================
intech19:/fix/f/debian/mm/maxima/59/maxima$ ./maxima-local
GCL (GNU Common Lisp) Version(2.5.0) Thu Dec 5 08:07:35 EST 2002
Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
Contains Enhancements by W. Schelter
Maxima 5.9.0rc3 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
provides bug reporting information.
(C1) y:[ (x2-x1)^2+(y2-y1)^2=36^2, (x3-x1)^2+(y3-y1)^2=25^2, (x3-x2)^2+(y3-y2)^2
=17^2];
2 2 2 2
(D1) [(Y2 - Y1) + (x2 - x1) = 1296, (Y3 - Y1) + (x3 - x1) = 625,
2 2
(Y3 - Y2) + (x3 - x2) = 289]
(C2) solve(y, [x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3]);
Error: 0 is not of type LIST.
Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging
Error signalled by MACSYMA-TOP-LEVEL.
Broken at MACSYMA-TOP-LEVEL. Type :H for Help.
=============================================================================
Can someone try with the other lisps? Is this Maxima or GCL?
Take care,
Arno Peters <a.w.peters@ieee.org> writes:
> Package: maxima
> Version: 5.6b-51
> Severity: normal
>
> During solve, maxima reports a fatal error. See the following
> transscript of a maxima session:
>
>
> GCL (GNU Common Lisp) Version(2.5.0) Thu Dec 5 19:42:11 EST 2002
> Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
> Contains Enhancements by W. Schelter
> Maxima 5.6 Thu Dec 5 19:47:56 EST 2002 (with enhancements by W. Schelter).
> Licensed under the GNU Public License (see file COPYING)
> (C1) y:[ (x2-x1)^2+(y2-y1)^2=36^2, (x3-x1)^2+(y3-y1)^2=25^2, (x3-x2)^2+(y3-y2)^2
> =17^2];
>
> 2 2 2 2
> (D1) [(y2 - y1) + (x2 - x1) = 1296, (y3 - y1) + (x3 - x1) = 625,
>
> 2 2
> (y3 - y2) + (x3 - x2) = 289]
> (C2) solve(y, [x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3]);
>
> Error: Caught fatal error [memory may be damaged]
> 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>>(si::use-fast-links nil)
>
> NIL
> MAXIMA>>(run)
> Maxima 5.6 Thu Dec 5 19:47:56 EST 2002 (with enhancements by W. Schelter).
> Licensed under the GNU Public License (see file COPYING)
> (C3) y:[ (x2-x1)^2+(y2-y1)^2=36^2, (x3-x1)^2+(y3-y1)^2=25^2, (x3-x2)^2+(y3-y2)^2
> =17^2];
>
> 2 2 2 2
> (D3) [(y2 - y1) + (x2 - x1) = 1296, (y3 - y1) + (x3 - x1) = 625,
>
> 2 2
> (y3 - y2) + (x3 - x2) = 289]
> (C4) solve(y, [x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3]);
>
> Error: Caught fatal error [memory may be damaged]
> Error signalled by CALLAPPRS.
> Backtrace: system:universal-error-handler > evalhook > run > catch > catch > mac
> syma-top-level > continue > meval* > meval > meval1 > solvex > $algsys > algsys
> > algsys0 > algsys1 > algsys > algsys0 > algsys1 > bakalevel > bakalevel1 > algs
> ys > algsys0 > algsys1 > algsys > algsys0 > algsys1 > bakalevel > bakalevel1 > c
> allsolve > callapprs > punivarp > system:universal-error-handler > SYSTEM::BREAK
> -LEVEL
> (C5)
>
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux duronbox.nosuchnet 2.4.19 #3 Fri Nov 8 12:47:36 CET 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=nl_NL, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL
>
> Versions of packages maxima depends on:
> ii libc6 2.3.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii libgmp3 4.0.1-3 Multiprecision arithmetic library
> ii libncurses5 5.3.20021109-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii libreadline4 4.3-4 GNU readline and history libraries
> ii tk8.3 [wish] 8.3.3-9 The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v8.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
>
--
Camm Maguire camm@enhanced.com
==========================================================================
"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah