This is now #12038, which has a patch which eliminates the segfault.
The problem was that you shouldn't be using coerce like that: the
first argument should be a parent, not the element class. That
element class requires two inputs: both the parent and the data to
make a new element out of. In t
On Nov 14, 2011, at 18:04 , Dan Drake wrote:
> This is not fun:
>
> sage: from sage.rings.complex_number import ComplexNumber as CN
> sage: parent(1+I)
> Symbolic Ring
> sage: coerce(CN, 1+I)
> BOOM
>
> (with 4.8.alpha1 and 4.7.2 in 64-bit Linux)
>
> It looks like mpfr is extremely unhappy ab
This is not fun:
sage: from sage.rings.complex_number import ComplexNumber as CN
sage: parent(1+I)
Symbolic Ring
sage: coerce(CN, 1+I)
BOOM
(with 4.8.alpha1 and 4.7.2 in 64-bit Linux)
It looks like mpfr is extremely unhappy about something.
Also, if I just use the regular ComplexNumber in the
