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#1224 taylor() segfaults when given wrong argument order

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2007-08-31
2007-06-13
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I called taylor() with the wrong argument order (putting the R third instead of second), and that causes a segfault if done twice:

(%i1) taylor(exp(R), 0, R, 10);

Maxima encountered a Lisp error:

Error in PROGN [or a callee]: Caught fatal error [memory may be damaged]

Automatically continuing.
To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
(%i2) taylor(exp(R), 0, R, 10);
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

This is with

Maxima version: 5.12.0
Maxima build date: 3:18 5/23/2007
host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
lisp-implementation-type: GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
lisp-implementation-version: GCL 2.6.7

(it's the Ubuntu 5.12.0-1ubuntu1 package for Ubuntu 7.10 recompiled for Ubuntu 7.04.)

-Sanjoy

Discussion

  • Dan Gildea

    Dan Gildea - 2007-08-30
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  • Dan Gildea

    Dan Gildea - 2007-08-30

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    (%i19) taylor(exp(R), 0, R, 10);

    Variable of expansion cannot be a number: 0
    -- an error. To debug this try debugmode(true);

     
  • Harald Geyer

    Harald Geyer - 2007-08-31

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    I don't agree that this bug has been fixed, thus I'm reopening it for now. I can reproduce it with 5.13.0 under gcl. Also I don't recall any cvs commit messages since the release, that I'd expect to affect this.

    @dgildea: Could you please be more verbose why you think this bug has been fixed. What was the cvs revision? What was the build_info for the session, that you pasted into your message?

    @all: This bug seems to be lisp specific. clisp doesn't crash, but it still gives a lisp error, which might be considered a bug in maxima. gcl does crash with a segfault the second time. Perhaps this is also a bug in gcl? Is it ok, that maxima is able to crash gcl?

     
  • Harald Geyer

    Harald Geyer - 2007-08-31
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  • Harald Geyer

    Harald Geyer - 2007-08-31

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    I take the last message back. I didn't realize that it was a very recent commit, because for some reason I didn't get the commit mail.

    For the record: The bug was fixed in src/hayat.lisp revision 1.26, Thu Aug 30 21:30:40 2007 UTC

    Sorry for the noise.

     
  • Harald Geyer

    Harald Geyer - 2007-08-31
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