On Jun 7, 10:41 am, Jason <ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 June 2011 09:12:06 Cactus wrote:
>
> > Case has kindly tracked down another WIndows x64 bug in MPIR.
>
> > A number of functions that return mp_bitcnt_t types were returning
> > ULONG_MAX on error rather than __GMP_BITCNT_MAX.
>
> > SInce unsigned longs are 32-bits on WIndows x64, these ULONG_MAX
> > values were not being seen as error returns.
>
> Did you add the bitcnt type in mpir-2.3 series ? because it would make it and
> error in mpir-2.3.1 , which I suppose we should fix
>
>
>
> > I have now corrected all these erroneous return values in the MPIR
> > SVN.   There is a change in gmp-impl.h but it is small and should not
> > have a serious impact on the RC1 testing that has been done for the
> > upcoming release.
>
> >     Brian

As far as I recall, mp_bitcnt_t was in MPIR 2.3.   This only impacts
on WIndows x64 so it would only be worth fixing if there are a lot of
MPIR 2.3 users depending on Windows x64.

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