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[PATCH science-team 0/1] Update flint.

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From: Greg Hogan <code <at> greghogan.com>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
Cc: Sharlatan Hellseher <sharlatanus <at> gmail.com>, 78334 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eric Bavier <bavier <at> posteo.net>
Subject: [bug#78334] [PATCH science-team 0/1] Update flint.
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 11:55:57 -0400

On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Am Fri, May 09, 2025 at 03:39:18PM +0000 schrieb Greg Hogan:
> > Our current version, flint 3.1.2, fails for me with:
> >   CC  fft_small/mpn_mul.c
> > In file included from src/fft_small/mpn_mul.c:17:
> > src/fft_small/mpn_mul.c: In function ‘_mpn_from_ffts_8’:
> > ./src/crt_helpers.h:120:3: error: ‘asm’ operand has impossible constraints
> >   120 |   __asm__ ("addq %23,%q7\nadcq %21,%q6\nadcq %19,%q5\n\tadcq %17,%q4\n\tadcq %15,%q3\n\tadcq %13,%q2\n\tadcq %11,%q1\n\tadcq %9,%q0"    \
>
> we can update flint, but this message may indicate a different problem,
> which surprises me. Flint includes assembly code, but does not use fat
> binaries such as gmp. So it is possible that assembly code chosen on the
> build machine (avx or whatever) is not executable on the machine where
> you run your own code linked to flint.

I'm building flint on the same machine as I built the rest of Guix.
And this is the flint build itself, not dependent code.

> But we build the package with
>    #:configure-flags '("--disable-assembly")
> so the problem should not occur.
>
> Maybe it is indeed a bug in the version we currently package.

v3.2.2 builds fine for me.

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