SIGFPE with boost::rational

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start with the reproducer in the issue using boost/rational.hpp and Boost 1.69.0, then inspect how boost::rational handles construction from two minimum int values. Done means the example no longer terminates with SIGFPE and a regression test covers this boundary case.

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Description

The following crashes at runtime with SIGFPE with boost 1.69.0

#include <boost/rational.hpp>
#include

int main()
{
auto i = std::numeric_limits::min();
boost::rational val(i, i);
return 0;
}

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