Package: nickle Version: 2.54-1 Severity: normal
I put in a large exponent, something like > 1.4**78000 by mistake. It took a long long time thinking (I didn't realized I'd given this large exponent so I wondered what was happening) then crashed. The backtrace: (gdb) bt #0 0x08075dc5 in NewRational () #1 0x0806efb8 in NewSignedDigitInteger () #2 0x08083130 in BinaryOperate () #3 0x08061d79 in ThreadsRun () #4 0x0808ed16 in yyparse () #5 0x0806fc2e in main () Also I wonder why this took so long. Doing exponents should be fast; since x^(2y) = (x^2)^y and x^(2y+1) = x * x^(2y) a simple recursive algorithm should quickly do largish exponents like the above. Interestingly however the crash was not reproducable. When I ran it again it took an even longer time (I got bored and wandered off) to calculate then gave a pages-long answer. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages nickle depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.2-1 GNU readline and history libraries nickle recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
