Exception access violation on Windows
Simon Byrne
simonbyrne at gmail.com
Fri Jun 9 07:15:46 CEST 2023
A Julia user was able to trigger an exception access violation from
mpz_pow_ui by raising 10 to the power of 10^9. Unfortunately I don't
have access to a Windows machine to create a reproducer. I'm not sure
of the cause, but I will note that 10^9 is getting very close to the
maximum value of a long on Windows.
See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/49580 for more details.
A C reproducer would be something like
#include "gmp.h"
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char * argv[]){
mpz_t base, result;
mpz_init_set_ui(base, 10);
mpz_init(result);
mpz_pow_ui(result, base, 1000000000);
mpz_out_str(stdout,10,result);
return 0;
}
(as noted above, I haven't tried running this on Windows, and on Linux
it appears to run but I didn't have the patience to see if it
completed).
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