Bill Allombert on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:25:25 +0100


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Re: Relative number fields question


On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 08:33:29AM -0800, William Hart wrote:
> nfeltreducemodpr(Labs,Mod(1,Labs.pol),Qmodpr);
> 
> But it responds:
> 
> ***   significant pointers lost in gerepile! (please
> report).

This one is a bug induced by the use of ...return scalarcol_shallow...
in nfreducemodpr.

You can work around it by doing instead:
N=nfeltreducemodpr(Labs,Mod(1,Labs.pol),Qmodpr);N

It would be really nice to have gerepileupto-safe shallow functions
though, but this require some trickery in C.

Cheers,
Bill.