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@@ -103,14 +103,20 @@ See <samp>ld</samp> manual for more details.</dd> <dt>My program crashes with high precisions.</dt> <dd>Your stack size limit may be too small; indeed, by default, -<cite><acronym>GMP</acronym></cite> currently allocates all -temporary results on the stack, and in very high precisions, -this limit may be reached. You can increase it with the -<samp>limit</samp>, <samp>unlimit</samp> or <samp>ulimit</samp> command, -depending on your shell. Alternatively, <abbr>e.g.</abbr> if your -system does not allow you to increase it further, you can rebuild -<cite><acronym>GMP</acronym></cite> and <cite><acronym>MPFR</acronym></cite> -to use another allocation method.</dd> +<cite><acronym>GMP</acronym></cite> 4.1.4 and below allocates all +temporary results on the stack, and in very high precisions, this +limit may be reached. You can solve this problem in different ways: +<ul> +<li>You can upgrade to <cite><acronym>GMP</acronym></cite> 4.2 (or above), +which now makes temporary allocations on the stack only when they are +small.</li> +<li>You can increase the stack size limit with the <samp>limit</samp>, +<samp>unlimit</samp> or <samp>ulimit</samp> command, depending on your +shell. This may fail on some systems, where the maximum stack size cannot +be increased above some value.</li> +<li>You can rebuild both <cite><acronym>GMP</acronym></cite> and +<cite><acronym>MPFR</acronym></cite> to use another allocation method.</li> +</ul></dd> <dt>Though I have increased the precision, the results are not more accurate.</dt> |