bug in gmp_fprintf still in next release?

[Marc Glisse]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2019, Torbjörn Granlund wrote:

> paul zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann at inria.fr> writes:
>
>  four years ago [1] I reported an issue with gmp_fprintf in GMP 6.1.0,
>  which cannot print correcly a number of 8589934589 bits (less than 2^33).
>
>  I just checked with today's snapshot: the issue is still there.
>
> Yikes!
>
>  Will the next GMP release be still limited to less than 2^33 bits?
>
> Probably.
>
> I believe the issue is the printf family's use of 'int' for sizes.  We
> cannot really get around that in gmp_*printf* while staying compatible.
> (I assume it was poor design by us in the first place not to use some
> wider signed type.)

The report was also about mpz_get_str, which does not have this 
limitation. And for printf, it should be possible to make it print 
correctly and return a nonsense integer.

-- 
Marc Glisse