Why is this happening to my software? An illegal instruction error.

Sergey kornburn at yandex.ru
Wed Jun 26 11:39:30 UTC 2024


On Tuesday, 18 June 2024 at 23:07:47 UTC, Murilo wrote:
> I've created a software which performs the Fermat's Primality 
> Test, however if I input a very big number it causes an error 
> saying "Illegal instruction (core dumped)". Does anyone know 
> why?
>
> I've used GDB and here is the message:
> Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
> 0x00005555555e40b0 in 
> _D3std8internal4math11biguintcore7BigUint3powFNaNbNfNkMSQCcQCbQBvQBtQBjmZQs ()
>
> Here is the link to the source code: 
> https://github.com/MuriloMir/Fermat-primality-test

Another point.. never use std.bigint for something serious.
At first you can try to use https://code.dlang.org/packages/gmp-d 
and see if the problem is still presented


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