It was triggered by old non-conforming feature of ECL 16.1.2; ECL 16.1.3 is 
more standard-conforming,
and so for our purposes we need to explicitly disable SIGFPE traps. Took a 
while to understand, sorry for noise.

On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 9:46:50 AM UTC, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 6:50:25 AM UTC, Ralf Stephan wrote:
>>
>> As you already noticed that the bug depends on the ECL/Maxima
>> version, let me just add that there is no need for taylor() (Maxima)
>> if you use series() (Pynac) which is way faster. Also there is
>>
>> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/6119
>>
>
> well, taylor() was there as it came from the doctest showing the problem 
> with ECL 16.1.3.
> Anything that triggers loading ECL/Maxima library interface readies  the 
> bug to go off, anyway.
>
> Then something like 
>
>      plot(log(x),(x,0.0,2.0))
>
> does trigger the crash itself. And it appears that the latter does not use 
> ECL/Maxima, right?
> (invoking this plot() before calling taylor() does not lead to a problem).
>
>

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