GNU bug report logs - #12350
Composites identified as primes in factor.c (when HAVE_GMP)

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Torbjorn Granlund <tg <at> gmplib.org>

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 13:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <meyering <at> hx.meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #98 received at 12350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Torbjorn Granlund <tg <at> gmplib.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>,  12350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	nisse <at> lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: bug#12350: Composites identified as primes in factor.c (when
	HAVE_GMP)
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 02:10:44 +0200

I found a problem with the GMP integration.

We have a 100 byte buffer in the stdin reading code, which was adequate
before we used GMP, but now one might want to attempt to factor much
larger numbers.

We'll fix that, but not tonight.

-- 
Torbjörn
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