David Bremner wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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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.
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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