Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 4/19/08, Viktor T. Toth <vttoth at vttoth.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I made some changes to the share makefile in the release branch just
>> yesterday, because some files were not installed by make install.
>>
>
> OK.
>
>
>> Error found in tests/rtest4.mac, problem: (86) [CMUCL ONLY]
>>
>
> This test is
>
> /* bug reported on mailing list circa 2007-11-27; bignum in exponent */
>
> is (errcatch (rat (x^(2^128))) = []);
> false;
>
> Maxima + CMUCL 18e (yes, it's old, but I guess it's the same error) complains:
>
> Error in function KERNEL::INTEXP:
> The absolute value of 340282366920938463463374607431768211456
> exceeds EXTENSIONS:*INTEXP-MAXIMUM-EXPONENT*.
>
> I'm going to let it go. Dunno what we can do about it.
>
>
Ask people to upgrade, I guess. This particular issue is fixed in later
versions. There's still *intexp-maximum-exponent*, but it turns out
that in these cases maxima wants to compute 1^<bignum>, which cmucl now
checks for and silently returns 1, independent of the exponent.
Ray