In Visual Studio C++, I am trying to multiply two uint64_t
numbers stored as little-endian in arrays. Unfortunately, there are two small carry propagation errors which I can't figure out where the problem is:
0x0306f7b285eead7d8cc88407a9f4c002 * 0xf9084d7a11528273377bf8560b3ffe =
0x2f1e00eebe083ca406e838b64ae89188195f931cca21eaaa66062c82cfffc correct
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0x2f1e00eebe083ca406e838b64ae88188195f931cca21faaa66062c82cfffc my code
Here is my code:
#include <stdint.h> // For uint64_t, uint8_t, ptrdiff_t
#include <stddef.h> // For size_t, ptrdiff_t
#include <string.h> // For memcpy, memset
#include <stdio.h> // For printf
#include <intrin.h> // For _umul128, _addcarry_u64
// Define uint128_t type using struct
typedef struct {
uint64_t lo;
uint64_t hi;
} uint128_t;
// Function to multiply two uint64_t numbers and get a uint128_t result
uint128_t multiply_uint64(uint64_t a, uint64_t b) {
uint128_t result;
result.lo = _umul128(a, b, &result.hi);
return result;
}
size_t len = 2;
memset(result, 0, 2 * len * sizeof(uint64_t));
for (size_t i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
uint64_t carry = 0;
for (size_t j = 0; j < len; ++j) {
// Multiply x[i] and y[j]
uint128_t product = multiply_uint64(x[i], y[j]);
// Add product.lo to result[i + j] with carry
uint8_t c1 = _addcarry_u64(0, product.lo, result[i + j], &result[i + j]);
// Add carry from previous addition to result[i + j]
uint8_t c2 = _addcarry_u64(c1, result[i + j], carry, &result[i + j]);
// Update carry for next iteration
uint64_t temp_carry = product.hi + c2;
carry = temp_carry;
}
result[i + len] = carry;
}
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for (size_t i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
uint64_t carry = 0;
for (size_t j = 0; j < len; ++j) {
// Multiply x[i] and y[j]
uint128_t product = multiply_uint64(x[i], y[j]);
// Add product.lo to result[i + j]
uint64_t sum1;
uint8_t c1 = _addcarry_u64(0, result[i + j], product.lo, &sum1);
// Add carry to sum1
uint64_t sum2;
uint8_t c2 = _addcarry_u64(0, sum1, carry, &sum2);
result[i + j] = sum2;
// Compute new carry
carry = product.hi + c1 + c2;
}
result[i + len] = carry;
}