Re: SegFault in 2**111111111 calculation

[Pearu Peterson]

On 6 Dec 2000, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:

> Please run your program in a debugger and check where it crashes.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x40023579 in __gmpz_pow_ui (r=0xbffff760, b=0xbffff760, e=111111111) at
pow_ui.c:103

On 6 Dec 2000, Sylvain Pion wrote:

> I think it's a stack size problem.  If you set "limit stacksize 512M" in
> your shell, then it works.  Default  is 8MB on linux, and I think I
> remember seeing in the GMP doc that it sometimes stores temporaries on
> the stack.

Yes! This solved the problem. Thanks!

In my bash shell I did:

ulimit -s 64000

and now the program still runs calculating this 2**111111111 ...

Thanks again,
        Pearu