[GAP Forum] bug in CharacterTable

[Justin Walker]

Hi, all,

On Sep 1, 2005, at 21:02, Roman Schmied wrote:

> An error occurs when you display a certain character table:
>
> gap> g := Group( (1,4,7)(2,5,8)(3,6,9)(10,11,12), (1,2,3), 
> (1,4)(2,5)(3,6)(10,12) );;
> gap> Display(CharacterTable(g));
> Bus error
>
> I am using GAP4, Version: 4.4.5 of 13-May-05, 
> powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0-gcc

FWIW, here's what I find.

With GAP4, Version: 4.4.5 of 13-May-05, powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0-gcc 
(667MHz G4 laptop), I have no problem with this sequence (it completes, 
with no error).

With GAP4, Version: 4.4.5 of 13-May-05, powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0-gcc 
(2x2.7GHz G5 tower), the following happens:
   - run with the shell file gap.sh, I get the buss error.
   - run without any args, as bin/powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0-gcc/gap, 
without the args as
     used in the shell file, I do *not* get the buss error, and 
completes as on the G4.

Odd.  The core file generated by the crash is not very informative (no 
symbols).

Regards,

Justin

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