By the way, I tried the binary sage-5.0-OSX-64bit-10.6-x86_64-Darwin.dmg

on my Mac Air running OSX 10.6.8, and it crashes on 

sage: int(2.75)

as already reported. Here is the machine data:

Model Name: MacBook Air

Model Identifier: MacBookAir3,2 

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo 

Processor Speed: 1.86 GHz 

Number of Processors: 1 

Total Number of Cores: 2 

L2 Cache: 6 MB 

Memory: 4 GB 

Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz 

Boot ROM Version: MBA31.0061.B01 

SMC Version (system): 1.66f55On Friday, 18 May 2012 00:13:37 UTC+2, Dima 
Pasechnik wrote:
>
> OSX 10.6.*-era hardware is weird. Some of it is 32-bit only, some of it 
> can run both kernels (when you boot you need to press a combination of keys 
> on the keyboard), some of it is 64-bit.
> All of them "can" run 64-bit applications, but I guess this "can" must be 
> taken with a pinch of salt...
> I hate to think what kind of problems might arise if the less capable 
> hardware is forced to run something
> compiled only for more capable one.
>
>
> On Thursday, 17 May 2012 04:44:10 UTC+2, D. S. McNeil wrote:
>>
>> > Doug, are you using the binary or did you compile your Sage? 
>>
>> Deliberately the binary; I've never had problems with a Sage I've 
>> successfully compiled myself.   [Haven't compiled 5.0 myself yet on 
>> the Mac, though I did at work today on ubuntu 12.04 and it went fine. 
>> Will probably try overnight.] 
>>
>> This feels sort of like a 32-bit/64-bit issue, and I'm getting some 
>> unexpected results in some directions.  Trying to remind myself about 
>> some of the Mac quirks. 
>>
>> FWIW even "sage: 2.3" trips the error for me, so I think pretty much 
>> every mpfr library call will cause troubles. 
>>
>>
>> Doug 
>>
>

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