signed/unsigned comparison with nails in mpz/mul_i.h

Marc Glisse marc.glisse at normalesup.org
Mon Nov 17 14:57:45 CET 2008


Hello,

I noticed the following line of code in mpz/mul_i.h:

   if (small_mult <= GMP_NUMB_MAX)

and I believe the intent was to write:

   if (sml <= GMP_NUMB_MAX)

(sml is abs(small_mult)).

It is not a bug since it only makes small negative integers use the slow 
code meant for large integers (I will never get used to the behaviour of 
signed/unsigned comparisons). And anyway it seems like the nails support 
has already changed a lot for 4.3 so this may have been modified already.

-- 
Marc Glisse


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