[Ecls-list] Error: Cannot print object #<single-float quiet NaN> readably.

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

I have uploaded a fix. ECL will only constant fold a function when the
output is an externalizable value or the function which is evaluated
signals an error.

Juanjo

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Waldek Hebisch <hebisch at math.uni.wroc.pl>wrote:

> Put the the following line in a file:
>
> (DEFUN |nangenericcomplex| () (PROG () (RETURN (/ 1.0 (COMPLEX 0.0)))))
>
> And then try to compile-file it:
>
> > (compile-file "sfsfun.clisp")
>
> ;;; Loading #P"/var/tmp/hebisch/usr/lib/ecl-11.1.1/cmp.fas"
> ;;;
> ;;; Compiling sfsfun.clisp.
> ;;; OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=2, Space=0, Speed=3, Debug=0
> ;;;
> ;;; Compiling (DEFUN |nangenericcomplex| ...).
> ;;; End of Pass 1.
> ;;; Emitting code for |nangenericcomplex|.
> ;;; Internal error:
> ;;;   ** Cannot print object #<single-float quiet NaN> readably.
> NIL
> NIL
> NIL
>
> FriCAS uses such a function to raise floating point errors
> when appropriate.  In principle I could divide by "runtime"
> zero (I have one at hand as just before call to |nangenericcomplex|
> I have test which checks that number to be used as divisor is zero).
> But having separate function seems clearer.  And some day compiler
> may be smart enough to realize that "runtime" zero is a zero and
> try to constant fold it...
>
> --
>                              Waldek Hebisch
> hebisch at math.uni.wroc.pl
>
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