Re: gp: ellpow() pointers lost

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

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Michael Somos wrote:
> ? E=ellinit([0,3,0,2,1/4]);
> ? ellpow(E,[-1,1/2],-1)
>   ***   significant pointers are lost in gerepile !!! (please report)

I broke this when systematizing the kernel-independant handling of integers:
ellpow was using the standard binary powering techniques, and was accessing
the exponent bits directly, and in the wrong order if we were using GMP
kernel. [ Bill had done most of the work already. ]

Fixed.

    Karim.
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