Re: SegFault in 2**111111111 calculation

[Pearu Peterson]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Pearu Peterson wrote:

> Also note that SegFault happens before the malloc call (see the
> supplied gmpy_allocate function).

Sorry, this is not obvious. But with

static void * gmpy_allocate(size_t size)
{
    void *res;
    fprintf(stderr, "mp_allocate( %d )\n", size);
    res = (void *)malloc(size);
    fprintf(stderr, "mp_allocate( %d ) ->%8p\n", size, res);
    return res;
}

I'll get

Calculating 2**111111111:
mp_allocate( 4 )
mp_allocate( 4 ) ->0x8049ba0
Segmentation fault

Which shows that the problem is not in malloc, at least not in the one
called in gmpy_allocate.
I guess the next thing for me is to read the GMP source;-)

Pearu