[Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Bugs in gcl cause maxima build failures

[Raymond Toy]

>>>>> "James" == James Amundson <address@hidden> writes:

    James> On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 08:13, Raymond Toy wrote:
    >> I looked at the code.  row-major-aref is used in only one place and it
    >> is given exactly one index, so you can probably change row-major-aref
    >> to just aref.
    >> 
    >> Can you or someone try that out for me when you get a chance?

    James> Ah. Progress. With that change maxima compiles! Unfortunately, we 
still

Cool!

    James> bomb at run time because gcl doesn't have ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT. Any
    James> thoughts on a workaround for that?

I assume gcl supports displaced arrays since there weren't any
complaints about that.

I see 2 options: (1) write our own for gcl, (2) see if slatec really
needs support for displaced arrays.  Option 2 will, I think, force me
to modify f2cl not to use the array-displacement stuff when displaced
arrays aren't used.  Something I should do anyway, but will take time.

Ray