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Re: Build using --with-gmp and shared libraries
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:22:11AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:21:29PM +0100, Fran?ois-Xavier Coudert wrote:
> > > The newest version of mpfr will build a shared library.
> > > In fact, we should move to using the newest version,
> > > but I think some/many people would object to having two
> > > external library dependencies.
> >
> > What advantages have the newest version? And (sorry for the obvious
> > question) why isn't it kept in sync with gmp?
> >
>
> I don't know the history/reason for the split. GMP 4.x
> includes essentially mpfr 2.0.1, which was released in
> May 2002. There have been 6 newer releases of mpfr
> since that time. There are literally hundreds of bug
> fixes, new features, and speed improvements. For
> gfortran, there is a new mpfr_subnormalize function.
> This would allow me to replace a homegrown hack that
> Tobi and I developed for dealing with subnormal numbers.
>
> For more info on mpfr versions, check
> http://www.mpfr.org/download.html
Would it be possible to replace gmp with mpfr entirely? Or do we use
gmp functionality that isn't found in mpfr?
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Janne Blomqvist