[PPL-devel] [Fwd: GMP 4.0 released]

[Roberto Bagnara]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: GMP 4.0 released
Date: 01 Dec 2001 12:41:24 +0100
From: Torbjorn Granlund <tege at swox.com>
To: gmp at swox.com

[We're actually waiting for ftp-upload at gnu.org to copy
gmp-4.0.tar.gz in place.  In the meantime, we've put it here:
<ftp://ftp.swox.se/pub/gmp/src/gmp-4.0.tar.gz>.  Swox has very
limited bandwidth, so please do not spread the word...]


Version 4.0 of the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) has
been released.  This is a major release, with important new features,
speed improvements, and bug fixes,

The source code is available from

        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-4.0.tar.gz

and many mirrors (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for a full list
of mirrors).  The GMP home page is found at:

        http://swox.com/gmp

Please send bug reports and comments to bug-gmp at gnu.org.

GMP 4.0 was finished and released by Torbjörn Granlund and Kevin Ryde.
For a complete list of contributors, please see gmp.texi in the
distribution.

Changes between MP version 3.1.1 and 4.0:

* Bug fixes.
* Speed improvements.
* Upwardly binary compatible with 3.x versions.
* New CPU support: IA-64, Pentium 4.
* Improved CPU support: 21264, Cray vector systems.
* Support for all MIPS ABIs: o32, n32, 64.
* New systems supported: Darwin, SCO, Windows DLLs.
* New divide-and-conquer square root algorithm.
* New algorithms chapter in the manual.
* New malloc reentrant temporary memory method.
* New C++ class interface by Gerardo Ballabio (beta).
* Revamped configure, featuring ABI selection.
* Speed improvements for mpz_powm and mpz_powm_ui (mainly affecting small
  operands).
* mpz_perfect_power_p now properly recognizes 0, 1, and negative perfect
  powers.
* mpz_hamdist now supports negative operands.
* mpz_jacobi now accepts non-positive denominators.
* mpz_powm now supports negative exponents.
* mpn_mul_1 operand overlap requirements relaxed.
* Float input and output uses locale specific decimal point where available.
* New gmp_printf, gmp_scanf and related functions.
* New division functions: mpz_cdiv_q_2exp, mpz_cdiv_r_2exp, mpz_divexact_ui.
* New divisibility tests: mpz_divisible_p, mpz_divisible_ui_p,
  mpz_divisible_2exp_p, mpz_congruent_p, mpz_congruent_ui_p,
  mpz_congruent_2exp_p.
* New Fibonacci function: mpz_fib2_ui.
* New Lucas number functions: mpz_lucnum_ui, mpz_lucnum2_ui.
* Other new integer functions: mpz_cmp_d, mpz_cmpabs_d, mpz_get_d_2exp,
  mpz_init2, mpz_kronecker, mpz_lcm_ui, mpz_realloc2.
* New rational I/O: mpq_get_str, mpq_inp_str, mpq_out_str, mpq_set_str.
* Other new rational functions: mpq_abs, mpq_cmp_si, mpq_div_2exp,
  mpq_mul_2exp, mpq_set_f.
* New float tests: mpf_integer_p, mpf_fits_sint_p, mpf_fits_slong_p,
  mpf_fits_sshort_p, mpf_fits_uint_p, mpf_fits_ulong_p, mpf_fits_ushort_p.
* Other new float functions: mpf_cmp_d, mpf_get_default_prec, mpf_get_si,
  mpf_get_ui, mpf_get_d_2exp.
* New random functions: gmp_randinit_default, gmp_randinit_lc_2exp_size.
* New demo expression string parser (see demos/expr).
* New preliminary perl interface (see demos/perl).
* Tuned algorithm thresholds for many more CPUs.

-- 
Torbjörn

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