[Ecls-list] How might this elliptic_e issue on SPARC hardware with ECL be debugged?
Subject: [Ecls-list] How might this elliptic_e issue on SPARC hardware with ECL be debugged?
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:42:30 -0400
David Kirkby wrote:
>
> Is there a test-suite of some sort for Maxima (outside that in Sage of
> course)? If so, I'd like to run that at some point, just in case there
>
run_testsuite() in maxima.
> are Solaris-specific issues that arrise. Unfortunately, due to its
> relative popularity compared to Windows, Solaris always suffers less
> testing that other operating systems. (It's also very noticable that
> Mathematica is more buggy on Solaris that linux or Windows. It is
> simply not tested as much - either by WRI or their user base).
>
FWIW, I normally run maxima on Solaris, but with cmucl, so maxima does
get tested quite often on Solaris. I do build with ecl and occasionally
run maxima's test suite there. There are extra failures with ecl
compared to cmucl and clisp. Most have to do with floating point
issues. I have been too lazy to investigate them in any detail, but the
issues appear to be that ecl is off by one bit.
Ray