Re: [GP/PARI] 2.0.21 bug in exp()?

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

[Gerhard:]
> (Karim, is this another incarnation of the recent problem with the
> shift macros...?)

No. Also, there hasn't been any problem with the shift macros [Background:
Igor Schein reported that on Solaris + gcc-2.97 + -O1 optimization the
function addsmulsi (undocumented) sometimes gave bogus answers. gcc-2.95 was
fine. We suspected a set of macros first. ].

It turned out to be aggressive (but correct) register allocation by gcc-2.97,
which interfered with the inlined assembler, resetting flags before we could
check them. I permuted two instructions in the C code so as to read the
register content immediately, and the problem is gone.

    Karim.
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