Greetings! I've just verified this is still a bug with clisp/maxima,
so I'll go ahead and register it on the site. RJF has separately
emailed me that this bug does not occur in the comercial macsyma.
Take care,
Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com> writes:
> 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
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