arithmetic without limitations

[Emmanuel Thomé]

Hi,

The GMP pages quotes ``arithmetic without limitations''.

Yet, there seems to be a limitation to 1 gigabyte integers.

(it's gmp-5.0.0, on a 64-bit machine).

tiramisu /tmp $ cat a.c 
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <gmp.h>

int main() {
  mp_limb_t * a;
  mp_limb_t * c;

  a = malloc((1 << 27) * sizeof(mp_limb_t));
  c = malloc((1 << 28) * sizeof(mp_limb_t));

  printf("start mul\n");
  
  mpn_sqr(c, a, 1 << 27);

  free(a);
  free(c);

  return 0;
}

tiramisu /tmp $ gcc a.c -lgmp
tiramisu /tmp $ gdb ./a.out
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Reading symbols from /tmp/a.out...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /tmp/a.out 
start mul

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000003562429bdb in __gmpn_fft_best_k () from /usr/lib64/libgmp.so.3
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install glibc-2.11.1-1.x86_64


The problem is that the 27 bits provided for in the struct nk fields are
not enough.

Cheers.

Emmanuel (and Paul and Pierrick).