[Cython] "__ipow__ has wrong number of arguments" is back here

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 3 March 2011 18:05, Robert Bradshaw <robertwb at math.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> BTW, do you all agree with this change?
>
> To summarize, the C signature of ipow takes three arguments, but the
> third is often/always garbage, so we shouldn't use it?
>

Yes.

>> I expect this change to break some code, particularly in Sage...
>
> It'll be a compile time error fixing a potential runtime crash, so I
> think that's a good move.

OK,


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