From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA17656; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:46:42 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA17823 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:46:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de (mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de [192.54.42.129]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i069kdH16959; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:46:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C527920300; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:46:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12862-01-79; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:46:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailhost.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (kaiser.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de [141.84.136.1]) by mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80AA8202F8; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:46:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from katrin.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (katrin.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de [141.84.136.12]) by mailhost.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C48885113; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:46:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by katrin.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix, from userid 3092) id 538FE79FC; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:46:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by katrin.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5095D79FB; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:46:04 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:46:04 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Fischbacher To: Damien Doligez Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, caml-bugs@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Problem with the old Num implementation of ocaml (fwd) (PR#1989) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: X-BOFH: Daemons did it MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at physik.uni-muenchen.de X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; physik:01 caml-list:01 1989:99 damien:01 bug:01 nat:01 nat:01 cip:99 physik:01 cip:99 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 doligez:01 address:96 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Damien Doligez wrote: > This bug is in fact in the ML part of the Num library, which is common > to both the old and new Num implementations. I think it dates back to > Caml Light. (...) > This "nondeterminism" comes from using a Nat.nat with an uninitialised > digit, using whatever was already in memory at that address. Many thanks for your prompt action. (By the way, ocaml is a very nice tool for certain kinds of calculations in Superstring/M-Theory - see http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312262 .) -- regards, tf@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (o_ Thomas Fischbacher - http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~tf //\ (lambda (n) ((lambda (p q r) (p p q r)) (lambda (g x y) V_/_ (if (= x 0) y (g g (- x 1) (* x y)))) n 1)) (Debian GNU) ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners