help with maxima/sbcl/alpha/linux



David Bremner wrote:
>
>> In any case, I think if you just load up f2cl-lib.lisp and slatec.lisp, 
>> and then compile zasyi.lisp, you'll reproduce the error.
>>     
>
>   
Oops.  You also need to set *read-default-float-format* to 'double-float 
before compiling zasyi.lisp.  That should work better.

> Since I get this same error on i386, I figured it was not the bug I
> was hunting.  But now I try with clisp and ecl, and it seems to load
> ok, so maybe that is an sbcl bug, if not necessarily the same one.
>
>   
Not sure about clisp, but if ecl is like gcl, single-float = 
double-float = double precision, so everything just works.

I'm surprised that anyone still has alpha chips to use. :-)

Ray