mpz_export a mpz_t with value 0

Kevin Sopp baraclese at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 3 06:41:06 CEST 2009


I use mpz_export to convert mpz_t to long long integers. mpz_export
uses the early out path if the size of op is zero, which it is for all
numbers with the value 0. Thus it doesn't store anything in rop.

I can work around this easily by initializing my destination long long int to 0.

However I consider this a bug since there's a discrepancy now with
mpz_import. I can import a value of 0 but I won't get a value of 0 out
and that hurts my symmetrical feelings.

Also, the documentation has a small example for mpz_import which makes
it appear as if mpz_init doesn't need to be called on the rop.


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