Re: Bug report about GMP Kernel

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Franck MICHEL wrote:
> I'm doing computations with series of floating point complex coefficients,
> 4500 digits. I've installed Pari 2.2.6 with GMP Kernel and I'm very
> satisfied by its  speed (about 3 times faster than Pari 2.1.0)
>
> With simple programs, all works fine.
> But with more complicated programs, the values obtained are wrong.
> Unfortunately, I wasn't able to identify a simple operation (division,
> power...) generating a false result. Therefore, I've simply shortened a
> program to keep the first wrong result obtained.
>
> The program uses relatively large data files in input, so I preferred to
> use a web page for the bug report, rather than to send it by mail.

The input data files were _read_ incorrectly, due to an unforeseen memory
corruption problem [ due to inputs with many leading zeroes ]. The GMP kernel
uses a little more memory and was more likely to be affected.

Fixed in CVS.

Cheers,

    Karim.

P.S: better than affiche(), try 'precision(x, 9)' [ for some large float x ]
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