On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Remi Turk wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:55:56PM +0000, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote: > > > > Prelude> :m +Data.Bits > > Prelude Data.Bits> 18446658724119492593 `shiftL` (-3586885994363551744) :: > > Integer > > and calculating, in your case, 2^3586885994363551744 is not > something your computer is going to like... > as it's probably a number which doesn't fit in our universe :)
Hmm, good point. I hadn't thought about the fact that the number of digits in the answer would be rather large... > Still, a segfault might point at a bug, which I unfortunately > won't be able to say much about. (Due to lack of knowledge & > information.) My googling suggests that gmp is prone to segfaulting when things get too large for it, so I'll just chalk it up to that. I apologise for thinking this was a bug :-) Cheers, Ganesh _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
