bug#48150: closed (breaking gmp)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #48150,
regarding breaking gmp
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> breaking gmp
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> Sun, 2 May 2021 02:14:46 +0100
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> With Guile 2.2.6:
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> $ guile-2.2 -c '(ash 1 (ash 1 37))'
> gmp: overflow in mpz type
> zsh: abort      guile-2.2 -c '(ash 1 (ash 1 37))'
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> For shift distances of (ash 1 63) or greater Guile cleanly signals an
> exception indicating the overflow.  The above treatment of a range of
> smaller (but still stupidly large) shift distances is less than awesome.
> It would be preferable for Guile to know gmp's limits and cleanly signal
> an exception, rather than exceed those limits in a way that terminates
> the process outright.
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> -zefram
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> Re: breaking gmp
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> Fri, 5 Nov 2021 17:33:16 +0100
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> Fixed in bf9d30f3c3fd03cb37d604f1927e9ce5c699338b. Thanks!
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