[Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Is MAX(a+b,c) = MAX(c,a+b) ?

[Camm Maguire]

One of our todo items is to use libffi for unlimited compiled calls.
This is on the back burner because no one really seems to need it.  If
this is not the case, please let me know.

Take care,

Raymond Toy <address@hidden> writes:

> >>>>> "Barton" == Barton Willis <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>     Barton> The message that "...requires less than one thousand
>     Barton> arguments" isn't very useful! With 50 members, max works
>     Barton> okay
> 
> [snip]
> 
>     Barton> Maxima version: 5.9.0 Maxima build date: 19:10 2/9/2003
>     Barton> host type: i686-pc-mingw32 lisp-implementation-type: Kyoto
>     Barton> Common Lisp lisp-implementation-version: GCL-2-5.0
> 
> gcl 2.4.0 has a call-arguments-limit of 64.  
> 
> CMUCL has a call-arguments-limit of most-positive-fixnum; clisp, most
> positive 32-bit number.  But ANSI CL says call-arguments-limit must be
> at least 50.  Presumably the others Lisps have limits close to
> most-positive-fixnum.
> 
> Is maxima required to work around limitations of the underlying lisp?
> 
> Ray
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