thanks, I think I found the problem -- my float() function should force Float64
On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 4:36:53 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote: > > I thought I could specialize fix_dec(), the catchall is something like > `fix_dec(x::AbstractFloat, n::Int)` and I had intended to define > `fix_dec{P}(x::ArbFloat{P}, n::Int)`. > > On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 4:31:37 PM UTC-4, Yichao Yu wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Jeffrey Sarnoff >> <jeffrey...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I got this error >> > ERROR: StackOverflowError: >> > in fix_dec(::ArbFloats.ArbFloat{116}, ::Int64) at ./printf.jl:932 >> (repeats >> > 80000 times) >> > >> > >> > I tried to import Base.fix_dec, Core.fix_dec to override the definition >> -- >> > neither worked. >> >> What are you trying to override? >> Overriding a definition and calling the old on in it isn't supported. >> >