On Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:25:44 PM UTC-4, leif wrote:
>
> On 19 Apr., 05:33, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <step...@missouri.edu> 
> wrote: 
> > I think I have found the problem with sympow.  It is nothing to do with 
> > elliptic curves.  It is simply a malloc/free error. 
> > 
> > In util.c there is a function free_data, which frees TACKS[0].  TACKS[0] 
> > is meant to be allocated in disk.c, but there are circumstances when 
> > TACKS[0] is not allocated. 
> > 
> > See the attached patch. 
> > 
> > I am not going to submit it as a trac ticket until I have heard from 
> > others.  In general, how to different OS's react to "free(NULL)"? 
>
>
I've created http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13144 for this.  We 
could just apply it only on FreeBSD, for instance.

- kcrisman

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