Bug introduced in 10.0 and fixed in 11.0
Can somebody help me understand why the following code snippet cause the Mathematica kernel to crash (without producing any further error messages)?
Block[
{
$MinPrecision = 100,
x = 1.`100 + 10^-55
},
HypergeometricU[1 - I - x, -1.`100 - I, - I]
]
I have tested on versions 8, 10.2 and 10.4 (all under Windows) and all produce a crash.
Update: Further testing reveals that it also crashes under Linux in version 10.2, but not in version 9.0 interestingly.
"10.3.1 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (December 9, 2015)"
but works fine on"11.0.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (July 28, 2016)"
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