Package: maxima
Version: 5.41.0-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I wanted to format a list of integers in base 16, but the default output was
returned in mixed case for the letters A-F. When I added case-conversion to the
format string, maxima suddenly ends up in an infinite memory-consuming loop.
The exact same format string works in lisp within maxima.
Example:
This works as expected and prints the list as a comma-separated list of
hexadecimal integers in upper case:
> (%i1) :lisp (format t "~{0x~:@(~x~)~^, ~}~%" '(1000 2000 3000 4000) )
> 0x3E8, 0x7D0, 0xBB8, 0xFA0
> NIL
> (%i1)
while this hangs indefinitely (notice exact same string and values)
> (%i1) printf(true, "~{0x~:@(~x~)~^, ~}~%", [1000,2000,3000,4000] );
This started happening when I added the case conversion. If I remove it, the
output is as expected:
> (%i4) printf(true, "~{0x~x~^, ~}~%", [1000,2000,3000,4000] );
> 0x3E8, 0x7D0, 0xBB8, 0xFA0
> (%o4) false
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages maxima depends on:
ii libc6 2.27-5
ii libgmp10 2:6.1.2+dfsg-3
ii libreadline7 7.0-5
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.5-1
Versions of packages maxima recommends:
ii gnuplot-x11 5.2.2+dfsg1-2
ii maxima-share 5.41.0-3
Versions of packages maxima suggests:
ii maxima-doc 5.41.0-3
pn maxima-emacs <none>
pn texmacs <none>
ii tk [wish] 8.6.0+9
pn xmaxima <none>
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