#11856 closed defect (fixed)
Raise an overflow error if the exponent of a multivariate polynomial flows over
Reported by: | SimonKing | Owned by: | malb |
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Priority: | critical | Milestone: | sage-4.7.2 |
Component: | commutative algebra | Keywords: | exponent overflow |
Cc: | malb, burcin, AlexanderDreyer, jakobkroeker | Merged in: | sage-4.7.2.alpha4 |
Authors: | Simon King | Reviewers: | Martin Albrecht, Alexander Dreyer |
Report Upstream: | N/A | Work issues: | |
Branch: | Commit: | ||
Dependencies: | #10903 | Stopgaps: |
Description (last modified by )
The following happens at least since sage-4.6.2 and was detected in #4539 by a new doctest:
sage: P.<x,y> = QQ[] sage: y^2^30 y^1073741824 sage: P.<x,y,z> = QQ[] sage: y^2^30 0
According to Hans, the maximal exponent of a variable in a monomial does depend on the number of variables in the ring. There is no function that returns that maximal exponent, but it is stored in the bitmask
attribute of a ring. The Singular interpreter actually only tests whether the total degree is below what is provided by bitmask; in theory, any exponent (not only the totall degree) can go up to that bound.
Here is the corresponding code in Singular's iparith.cc
:
static BOOLEAN jjTIMES_P(leftv res, leftv u, leftv v) { poly a; poly b; int dummy; if (v->next==NULL) { a=(poly)u->CopyD(POLY_CMD); // works also for VECTOR_CMD if (u->next==NULL) { b=(poly)v->CopyD(POLY_CMD); // works also for VECTOR_CMD if ((a!=NULL) && (b!=NULL) && (pTotaldegree(a)+pTotaldegree(b)>si_max((long)rVar(currRing),(long)currRing->bitmask))) { Werror("OVERFLOW in mult(d=%ld, d=%ld, max=%ld)", pTotaldegree(a),pTotaldegree(b),currRing->bitmask); pDelete(&a); pDelete(&b); return TRUE; ...
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comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by
- Status changed from new to needs_review
comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by
It seems max_exponent_size
should be removed since it's not needed any more?
comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by
I did some tests with Cython functions either testing whether (for cdefined a,b,c) we have a>max(b,c)
or a>b and a>c
. The execution time was about the same. So, the patch should be fine as it is (modulo doctests, of course).
I don't know whether max_exponent_size is used somewhere else.
comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by
Very tricky. Singular correctly computes x^2^30*x^2^30
, but it does not print it correctly, because when printing the exponent then it is converted in a different format:
sage: P.<x,y> = QQ[] sage: (x^2^30*x^2^30) x^-2147483648 sage: (x^2^30*x^2^30).degree() 2147483648
So, internally the degree is correct.
Even more tricky: In the case of x^2^31
, Singular believes that the result is zero. The degree()
method first tests whether it is (believed to be) zero, and acts accordingly:
sage: (x^2^31).degree() -1 sage: (x^2^31) 0
That happens when I remove the max_exponent_size. I suppose I shouldd revert that removal...
comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by
The latest patch version checks both whether the exponent exceeds max_exponent_size (which avoids some bugs that occur in Singular) and whether it is illegal in Singular (which avoids the bugs in Sage that led to the creation of this ticket).
We now have
sage: x^2^30*x^2^30 Traceback (most recent call last): ... OverflowError: Exponent overflow (2147483648).
I wonder whether the test, that became more expensive, led to an inacceptable speed regression. That should be investigated.
The tests in sage/rings/polynomial pass for me. I don't know about the rest. Needs review!
comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by
Code looks okay. So modulo the possible speed regression and doctests passing this should get a positive review.
comment:7 Changed 11 years ago by
Here are some timings.
With the patch:
sage: P.<x,y,z> = QQ[] sage: p = x+y sage: %timeit q=p^20 625 loops, best of 3: 6.93 µs per loop sage: p = x+y+z sage: %timeit q=p^25 625 loops, best of 3: 418 µs per loop sage: %timeit q=x^2^10 625 loops, best of 3: 2.1 µs per loop
Without the patch:
sage: P.<x,y,z> = QQ[] sage: p = x+y sage: %timeit q=p^20 625 loops, best of 3: 7.08 µs per loop sage: p = x+y+z sage: %timeit q=p^25 625 loops, best of 3: 419 µs per loop sage: %timeit q=x^2^10 625 loops, best of 3: 2.14 µs per loop
These are only few data points, but they seem to show that the overhead is sufficiently small.
comment:8 Changed 11 years ago by
- Status changed from needs_review to positive_review
comment:9 Changed 11 years ago by
- Reviewers set to Martin Albrecht
comment:10 follow-up: ↓ 12 Changed 11 years ago by
- Cc malb burcin AlexanderDreyer added; malb burcin removed
- Status changed from positive_review to needs_info
comment:11 Changed 11 years ago by
- Work issues set to 32bit doctests
comment:12 in reply to: ↑ 10 ; follow-up: ↓ 13 Changed 11 years ago by
Replying to SimonKing:
He provided a fix at #4539, but actually I think it should be included here. What do people think?
Indeed, I also had to apply http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/4539/trac4539_fix_docs_32bit.patch here for 32-bit systems. So, I think, it is necessary.
BTW: it seems that this ticket depends on #11115.
comment:13 in reply to: ↑ 12 Changed 11 years ago by
Replying to AlexanderDreyer:
Replying to SimonKing: BTW: it seems that this ticket depends on #11115.
What ticket are you referring to by "this"? If "this" is #4539: #4539 depends on #11068, which depends on #11115. But if "this" is #11856 then I don't see a dependency. What do you mean? Is there fuzz when applying my or your patch? Does it not work without #11115?
comment:14 Changed 11 years ago by
- Status changed from needs_info to needs_review
I just tested: trac11856_exponent_overflow.patch followed by trac4539_fix_docs_32bit.patch cleanly applies to sage-4.7.2.alpha3-prerelease.
Thus, if Alexander finds that trac4539_fix_docs_32bit.patch fixes the problem on 32-bit (I can not test it, myself), then I suggest that Alexander's patch should be moved from #4539 to here and turned into a reviewer patch; and if Alexander says that it is fixed, then we should return to a positive review.
comment:15 Changed 11 years ago by
- Reviewers changed from Martin Albrecht to Martin Albrecht, Alexander Dreyer
- Status changed from needs_review to positive_review
Indeed, I thought that #11856 would depend on #11115. But it turned out, that my Sage becomes corrupted when popping the patches of. #11115. So starting with a brand new clone of devel/sage-main does the trick.
So I can confirm, http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/4539/trac4539_fix_docs_32bit.patch fixes the problem on 23 Bit platforms.
comment:16 Changed 11 years ago by
..32 Bit ... ;-)
comment:17 Changed 11 years ago by
- Description modified (diff)
Let's try to sort things out:
The patch that Alexander posted at #4539 should better be a reviewer patch here. Thus, I copied his patch, added a commit message, and posted it here under a new name reflecting the ticket number. The positive review can be kept (I hope we agree on that), and:
Apply trac11856_exponent_overflow.patch trac11856_fix_docs_32bit.patch
comment:18 Changed 11 years ago by
- Description modified (diff)
- Work issues 32bit doctests deleted
comment:19 Changed 11 years ago by
- Status changed from positive_review to needs_work
- Work issues set to Conflict with #11339
This seems to conflict with #11339.
comment:20 Changed 11 years ago by
- Status changed from needs_work to positive_review
The first patch has been rebased on top of #11339. The patch from #11339 did some cosmetic changes, such as replacing p_Delete(&p,r)
by p_Delete(&p, r)
. Therefore, one of the hunks from the first patch here did not apply.
Since it is a very simple editorial change, without changing the code, I am directly reinstating the positive review.
Apply trac11856_exponent_overflow.patch trac11856_fix_docs_32bit.patch
comment:21 Changed 11 years ago by
- Dependencies set to #11339
comment:22 Changed 11 years ago by
- Work issues Conflict with #11339 deleted
comment:23 Changed 11 years ago by
- Dependencies #11339 deleted
- Status changed from positive_review to needs_work
- Work issues set to Rebase without #11339
comment:24 Changed 11 years ago by
- Status changed from needs_work to positive_review
- Work issues Rebase without #11339 deleted
Since this ticket fixes a critical bug, I think it would be good to merge it in sage-4.7.2, rather than waiting for 4.7.3. Since #11339 seems to need work, I returned to the original first patch and hope that it is ok to renew Martin's and Alexander's positive review.
Apply trac11856_exponent_overflow.patch trac11856_fix_docs_32bit.patch
Changed 11 years ago by
Mimmick Singular's exponent overflow check but still avoids some bugs that Singular provides
comment:25 Changed 11 years ago by
- Dependencies set to #10903
It seems that I should not have rebased my ticket wrt #11339, but wrt #10903 (which in turn has #11339 as a dependency).
Namely, #11339 only works together with #10903.
Solution: Both #11339 and #10903 have a positive review. Hence, it is fine to make #10903 (and thus #11339 by transitivity) a dependency.
Running doctests now, again.
Apply trac11856_exponent_overflow.patch trac11856_fix_docs_32bit.patch
comment:26 Changed 11 years ago by
FWIW: The doctests are fine. So, it is justified to keep the positive review of Martin and Alexander.
comment:27 Changed 11 years ago by
- Merged in set to sage-4.7.2.alpha4
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from positive_review to closed
comment:28 Changed 7 years ago by
- Cc jakobkroeker added
The attached patch seems to solve the problem. It wraps the attribute
bitmask
of Singular's rings. Moreover, it detects exponent overflow in the same way as Singular does (see ticket description).rVar
is in fact a macro that simply returns thering->N
attribute.With the patch, I get (as a new doctest):
I did not run the doc tests yet, but I think a reviewer can already have a look on it.
I wonder, though, whether the speed will be fine: I use the
max
function with the arguments being an unsigned long and a long. I can only hope that it is fast enough in Cython.