[Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Maxima 5.9.0.9rc1 available

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Yes we've discussed this in connection with ANSI
compliance.  Currently, GCL has a max of 64 arguments.  This is in
fact ANSI compliant -- implementations can define such a maximum
within a certain range, which covers 64,  We had discussed integrating
libffi(?) to support an arbitrarily large number of arguments, as
axiom as well needed a workaround in one place, but the feedback we
received from the axiom people was that this was very low priority.

You cn always use something like:

(defun maxl (l) 
        (cond   ((atom l) nil) 
                ((null (cdr l)) (car l)) 
                (t (max (car l) (maxl (cdr l))))))

Take care,

Andrej Vodopivec <address@hidden> writes:

> Na 1095389385, 2004-09-17 ob 04:49, je James Amundson napisal(a):
> 
> > Please test and then tell me that we are ready to release 5.9.1. (I
> > suppose problems should be reported, too...)
> 
> Maxima build with gcl has a strange limit on the number of arguments to
> functions. This causes problems for some commands:
> 
> -----
> (%i1) l : makelist(i,i,1,100)$
> (%i2) apply(max, l);
> 
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
> 
>  Error in MACSYMA-TOP-LEVEL [or a callee]: MACSYMA-TOP-LEVEL [or a
> callee] requires less than one hundred arguments.
> 
> Automatically continuing.
> To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
> 
> (%i3) build_info()$
> 
> Maxima version: 5.9.0.9rc2cvs
> Maxima build date: 22:51 9/20/2004
> host type: i686-redhat-linux-gnu
> lisp-implementation-type: Kyoto Common Lisp
> lisp-implementation-version: GCL 2.6.5
> -----
> 
> This example works in other lisps and in beta2 on windows. It does not
> work in rc1 on windows (same error).
> 
> -- 
> Andrej Vodopivec <address@hidden>
> 
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