bug in gmp_fprintf still in next release?

Niels Möller nisse at lysator.liu.se
Wed Oct 9 08:12:57 UTC 2019


tg at gmplib.org (Torbjörn Granlund) writes:

> IIRC, the size field counts bytes for these functions.  The size in mpz
> counts limbs.

You're right. So then for positive numbers, mpz_out_raw can deal with
numbers of at most 2^34 - 8 bits. And negative numbers of at most 2^34
bits (absolute value). Which is smaller than the mpz_t limit.

Regards,
/Niels

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