[Gcl-devel] 2.6.6 errors on SuSe 9.1

[Andrei Zorine]

Hello, Lis{t,p}ers!
I have two questions.

I have compiled gcl-2.6.6 on SuSe-Linux 9.1 machine, compilation process 
seemed OK But I get some errors:
1. Call to (time (+ 1 2)) produces "Error in - [or a callee]: NIL is not 
of type NUMBER." This error was also in 2.6.3, but I hoped it'd go away 
in new version of gcl
2. (room) gives "Error in NTH [or a callee]: Expected a FIXNUM" Same as 
in 2.6.3

The reason I went for 2.6.6 was slow-down after declare'ing variables in 
a function. I played with a Mersenne number tester:

(defun $mersenne(n)
 (let* ((L 4) (q (integer-length n)))
 ;(declare (type integer L q))
 (cond ((<= q 2) (error "q must be >2")))
 (dotimes (i (- q 2) (= 0 (mod L n)))
   (setq L (mod (- (* L L) 2) n)))))

This function compiled as is ran faster than one compiled with 
(declare...) uncommented. The time difference was about 0.5 sec, which 
is significant for 2.8GHz P4 ( I tried n=2^11213-1 ).

--
Andrei Zorine