Re: Segmentation fault when computing square root.

[Erik Backerud]

You are quite right, reconfiguring with --disable-alloca and recompiling
fixed the problem.  My mistake.

I'm quite impressed with the performance of gmp.

regards
Erik Backerud

On 26 Jan 2002, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> Erik Backerud <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   Bug  found:
>
>   Gmp gives a segmentation fault when trying to extract the square root
>   of large numbers using the mpz_sqrt() function.
>   Specifically the number i am trying to extract a root from is:
>   2*10^20000000
>
> This is almost certainly question 3 of http://swox.com/gmp/#FAQ.
> Please confirm.
>
> --
> Torbjörn
>

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