I see these too, and I should have mentioned them. I don't see them if
I use gcl with gcc-4.5, but I can only built this version under XP - it
doesn't compile under Windows 7. I haven't had the time to look into it
more fully.
On 25/08/2012 10:29 PM, Volker van Nek wrote:
> Thank you very much for creating a Windows installer.
>
> I run the test suite on Vista in a VirtualBox.
>
> Maxima 5.28.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (a.k.a. GCL)
>
> Error summary:
> Errors found in
> C:/PROGRA~1/MAXIMA~3.0/share/maxima/5.28.0/tests/rtest16.mac, problems:
> (196 197)
> 2 tests failed out of 9,351 total tests.
>
> ********************** Problem 196 ***************
> Input:
> float((2^60-1)/2^60)-1
> Result:
> -1.1102230246251565E-16
> This differed from the expected result:
> 0.0
> ********************** Problem 197 ***************
> Input:
> float((2^1000-1)/2^1000)-1
> Result:
> -1.1102230246251565E-16
> This differed from the expected result:
> 0.0
>
> GCL is from git I assume.
>
> In GCL 2.6.7 which I installed from debian sid to build Maxima on
> Linux these problems are not present.
>
> Volker van Nek
>
> 2012/8/25 David Billinghurst <dbmaxima at gmail.com
> <mailto:dbmaxima at gmail.com>>
>
> There is a windows installer at
> http://billinghurst.customer.netspace.net.au/maxima-5.28.0.exe
>
> As with past windows binaries this is built with an ancient
> mingw/msys and gcl/gcc-3.3.1. I now have the technology to build
> with a newer mingw/gcc and/or with other lisps.
>
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