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List:       gmp-bugs
Subject:    Re: Upstream patch to remove abort() that occur during memory overflow
From:       tg () gmplib ! org (=?utf-8?Q?Torbj=C3=B6rn?= Granlund)
Date:       2020-09-13 9:38:30
Message-ID: 86zh5uqand.fsf () shell ! gmplib ! org
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Marco Bodrato <bodrato@mail.dm.unipi.it> writes:

  With ABI=64 I get:
  16777216 ^ 768614336404564651 = 256

  With ABI=32 I get:
  16777216 ^ 178956971 = 256

  Not a signal, nor an abort, simply an incorrect result :-)

That's undesirable.

I thought we cought overflows also in this difficult a^b case by
(indirectly means of allocation errors).

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