mpz_divexact bug for PPC64

[Niels Möller]

Marc Glisse <marc.glisse at inria.fr> writes:

> On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Leonardo Bianconi wrote:
>
>> Description: mpz_divexact has not the same result for PPC64,
>> comparing with x86, when division is not exact.
>
> "These functions produce correct results only when it is known in
> advance that d divides n."
	
Right, the implementation is allowed to do anything it likes when the
division isn't exact. Current implementation might call divrem_1 (plain
euclidean division, depending on platform-specific tuning) for small
divisors, otherwise it divides out powers of two, followed by a
division mod B^n. So it's not surprising if the result depends on the
word size.

And when we switch to using Jebeleans algorithm, the result in the case
of a non-exact division will get bogus in a completely different way.

So don't do that.

Regards,
/Niels

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