GMP bug

Torbjorn Granlund tg at gmplib.org
Fri Jul 15 14:13:31 CEST 2011


We have discovered a bug in mpn/generic/dcpi1_bdiv_q.c that is quite
unpleasant.  It causes invalid computation, but with very low
probability (for uniformly distributed random operands).  Please see
http://gmplib.org/#STATUS for more information.

This will warrant a 5.0.3 release.

The bug was discovered by our automated tests, which use new random test
vectors each night.

-- 
Torbjörn


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