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http://jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Interpreter/Bugs#numeric_dyad_E._corrupts_memory

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Raul


On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
> There was an optimization for E., and that broke E. for non-character
> arguments.  Some integer arguments will crash J.
>
> Henry Rich
>
>
> On 9/23/2015 4:25 PM, Joey K Tuttle wrote:
>>
>> Yep, one does have to be old enough ...
>>
>>
>>     9!:14 ''
>> 4.05/2001-05-16/11:30
>>     _2 1  E.  1 2 _1 _2 1
>> 0 0 0 1 0
>>
>>     9!:14 ''
>> j503a/2004-03-25/00:05
>>     _2 1  E.  1 2 _1 _2 1
>> 0 0 0 1 0
>>
>>     9!:14 ''
>> j504/2005-03-16/15:30
>>     _2 1  E.  1 2 _1 _2 1
>> 0 0 0 1 0
>>
>>     9!:14 ''
>> j601/2006-11-17/17:05
>>     _2 1  E.  1 2 _1 _2 1
>> 0 0 0 0 0
>>
>> Something went sideways between j504 and j601 ...
>>
>> It is an interesting bit of history - and a new regression expression for
>> Roger!
>>
>> I feel (a little) less guilty about still using j504 in much of my
>> production use of j...
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 2015 Sep 23, at 11:33 , R.E. Boss <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sometimes ...
>>>
>>>        _2 1  E.  1 2 _1 _2 1
>>> 0 0 0 0 0
>>>
>>>    JVERSION
>>> Installer: j602a_win64.exe
>>> Engine: j602/2008-03-03/16:45
>>> Library: 6.02.071
>>>
>>>
>>> R.E. Boss
>>>
>>>
>>>> Sometimes, older is wiser...
>>>>
>>>> (I try to tell my grand kids that ...  ;-)
>>>>
>>>> $ ja
>>>>     JVERSION
>>>> Engine: j701/2011-01-10/11:25
>>>> Library: 8.01.028
>>>> Platform: Linux 64
>>>> Installer: j801 install
>>>> InstallPath: /usr/local/lib/j64-801
>>>>     _2 1  E.  1 2 _1 _2 1
>>>> 0 0 0 0 0
>>>>
>>>> But going back 10 years (and using my system that has been running
>>>> reliably for more than 15 ...)
>>>>
>>>> $ ja
>>>>     version ''
>>>> j504/2005-03-16/15:30
>>>> Running in: Linux
>>>> Linux version 2.4.20-28.8 ([email protected]) (gcc version
>>>> 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #1 Thu Dec 18 12:53:39 EST 2003
>>>>
>>>>      _2 1  E.  1 2 _1 _2 1
>>>> 0 0 0 1 0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2015/09/23 08:14 , R.E. Boss wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     _2 1  E.  1 2 _1 _2 1
>>>>> 0 0 0 0 0
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> R.E. Boss
>>>>>
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