introducing since release of software to be recognised. This should hopefully
allow the builds to progress a littles further on systems such as the POWER8
which features a little endian 64-bit PowerPC CPU identified as ppc64le.
- Bug fixes (see <http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-3.1.1/#fixed> or ChangeLog file).
- Bug fixes (see <http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-3.1.0/#fixed> or ChangeLog file).
- TLS support is now detected automatically. If TLS is supported, MPFR is
built as thread safe by default. To disable TLS explicitly, configure
MPFR with --disable-thread-safe.
- The mpfr_urandom and mpfr_urandomb functions now return identical values
on processors with different word size (assuming the same random seed, and
since the GMP random generator does not depend itself on the word size,
cf http://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-devel/2010-September/001642.html).
- The mpfr_add_one_ulp and mpfr_sub_one_ulp macros (which are obsolete and
no more documented) will be removed in a future release.
- Speed improvement for the mpfr_sqr and mpfr_div functions using Mulders'
algorithm. As a consequence, other functions using those routines are
also faster.
- Much faster formatted output (mpfr_printf, etc.) with %Rg and similar.
- New functions mpfr_buildopt_gmpinternals_p, mpfr_buildopt_tune_case,
mpfr_frexp, mpfr_grandom and mpfr_z_sub.
- New divide-by-zero exception (flag) and associated functions.
- Internal change: the logging mechanism has been improved.
- Bug fixes, in particular a huge inefficiency in mpfr_exp (when the
target precision is less than MPFR_EXP_THRESHOLD) on hard-to-round
cases, which can take several minutes.
install the headers or librarys into the system.
someone who really cares could make them shlibs again and have them
installed into eg, /usr/lib/gcc. not convinced it is worth it.
expand the list of platforms here significantly.
XXX: someone who knows FP well across our platforms should have a look
XXX: at this list and fix any errors / omissions i've made.
The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point
computations with exact rounding (also called correct rounding). It is
based on the GMP multiple-precision library and should replace the MPF
class in further releases of GMP.
GCC >= 4.2 requires MPFR.
sevan