Re: [Gcl-devel] Some random thoughts on future features

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Great to hear!  In general, CVS is much more compliant at
present.  Please don't rely on it to heavily until released though.
I'd like the next release to substantially put all ANSI work behind
us, and we need an experimental area that we might temporarily break
with impunity to get there.

Take care,

Mike Thomas <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Barton.
> 
> Thanks for your follow-up test with "cl::real".
> 
> Looks like GCL 2.6.5 (the stable release I tried yesterday) has
> problems with PCL and ANSI, as following on from your result I took
> CVS Maxima (using the Maxima-local batch file) built with CVS GCL and
> tried out Rays' original code (without the package manipulation I
> suggested) ie:
> 
> 1. to_lisp()
> 
> 2. Cut and paste Ray's original Lisp CLOS code
> 
> 3. (to-maxima)
> 
> 4. Cut and paste Ray's origional Maxima test code and I'm pleased to
> say that modulo some compiler noise, it worked as below.
> 
> I may not be subscribed to the Maxima list from this email address so
> it may take a while for this message to get through there.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
> 
> JACOBI-SN-BIGFLOAT
> MAXIMA> (to-maxima)
> Returning to Maxima
> (%o1)                                true
> (%i2) fpprec:50;
> 
> (%o2)                                 50
> (%i3) jacobi_sn(x,1);
> 
> (%o3)                               tanh(x)
> (%i4) tanh(0.5b0);
> 
> (%o4)       4.6211715726000975850231848364367254873028928033011b-1
> (%i5) jacobi_sn(0.5b0,0.99999999999999999999999999999b0),bfloat;
> 
> Compiling ./gazonk0.lsp.
> End of Pass 1.
> End of Pass 2.
> OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=2, Space=3, Speed=2
> Finished compiling ./gazonk0.lsp.
> (%o5)       4.6211715726000975850231848364384478195723189546368b-1
> (%i6)
> 
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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