Weird segmentation fault error

[Sumeet]

@Paul:
Thanks! Your solution worked for me.

@Vincent:
Please could you elaborate a bit - give a short sample code for instance?
I'm new to C and GMP.

Thanks,
Sumeet.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> wrote:

> On 2012-01-10 14:09:43 +0100, Paul Zimmermann wrote:
> > > Could somebody point out the reason for the segfault error?
> >
> >  -- Function: void mpf_inits (mpf_t X, ...)
> >      Initialize a NULL-terminated list of `mpf_t' variables, and set
> >                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Warning! NULL is not sufficient. For instance,
>
> #define NULL 0
>
> is a valid definition, and if int is on 32 bits and pointers are
> on 64 bits, you may have problems. Since the C standard also allows
> the implementation to have different representations for pointers to
> different types, it is safer to use a null pointer with the pointer
> to mpf_t type.
>
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