FD constraints - strange behavior

 Hello,

Using Gnu-Prolog up to 1.3.0, I'm facing something strange (might be a bug
?) illustrated in the predicates below. Why on earth doesn't v1(_) find the
solution ? Defining a new variable for the subexpression (C+30) seems to
help Gnu-Prolog...

It could be related to an overflow problem, but It would be surprising : we
are far below max_integer. It does not seem to be related to the "FD sparse
representation" pitfall (setting fd_set_vector_max to a big value has no
effect).

Thanks in advance.

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Execution :
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| ?- v1(Res).
     no
| ?- v2(Res).
     Res = [9,7]
     yes
| ?- v3(Res).
     Res = [9,7]
     yes

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Listing :
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v1(Ls) :-
        Ls = [C,G],
        fd_domain(C, 8, 9), fd_domain(G, 7, 8),
        780 + 52*(C+30) + 12*G*(C+30) #= 156*(C+30),
        fd_labelingff(Ls).
v2(Ls) :-
        Ls = [C,G],
        fd_domain(C, 8, 9), fd_domain(G, 7, 8),
        C30#=30+C, % replacing expression in v1
        780 + 52*(C30) + 12*G*(C30) #= 156*(C30),
        fd_labelingff(Ls).
v3(Ls) :-
        Ls = [C,G],
        fd_domain(C, 8, 9), fd_domain(G, 7, 8),
        C#=9,  % adding a constraint to v1
        780 + 52*(C+30) + 12*G*(C+30) #= 156*(C+30),
        fd_labelingff(Ls).
--------------------------------------------------

By the way, my original code (for a CLP problem taken from a book) showing
the "bug" was :

fractions1(Ls) :-
        Ls = [A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I],
        fd_domain(Ls, 1, 9),
        fd_all_different(Ls),
        BC #= 10*B+C, EF #= 10*E+F, HI #= 10*H+I,
        A*EF*HI + D*BC*HI + G*BC*EF #= BC*EF*HI,
        fd_labelingff(Ls).

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