GMP bug

[Richard Guenther]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:

> We have discovered a bug in mpn/generic/dcpi1_bdiv_q.c that is quite
> unpleasant.  It causes invalid computation, but with very low
> probability (for uniformly distributed random operands).  Please see
> http://gmplib.org/#STATUS for more information.
> 
> This will warrant a 5.0.3 release.
> 
> The bug was discovered by our automated tests, which use new random test
> vectors each night.

Is GMP 4.2.x also affected?

Thanks,
Richard.

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