number printing problems in 5.9.3 xmaxima on windows/GCL



%i3) 1.797693134862315d+308;
(%o3) 			    1.7976931348623149E+308
(%i4) %*2;

Maxima encountered a Lisp error:

 Error in EVAL [or a callee]: Can't print a non-number.

Automatically continuing.
To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.