Submitted by YouCrossTheLineAlfie, also found by 0x23r0, 0xbrett8571, 0xpetern, Akxai, bareli, CodexBugmenot, Dest1ny_rs, djshan_eden, felconsec, Franfran, Illoy-Scizceneghposter, JuggerNaut63, maxzuvex, maze, micklondonjr, rmrf480, Tezei, TheCarrot, and who_rp
https://github.com/code-423n4/2025-04-forte/blob/4d6694f68e80543885da78666e38c0dc7052d992/src/Float128.sol#L712
The Float128::sqrt function is used to find the square root of the given packed float.
Mathematically, intuitively and as per most other libraries in different programming languages, it is ideal to say that square root of 0 should return 0.
However, the implementation of sqrt function stops the executing when the give packed float is 0 via stop().
This can lead to serious issues where the code execution just stops mid-way silently reverting the control flow.
Serious financial consequences can happen in protocols using this library as the entire code execution reverts due to the stop().
It is recommended to return 0 instead of using the stop():
Add a file named test.t.sol inside the /test folder:
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