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Re: gmp 5.0.1 and gcc 4.5?


On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Jack Howarth wrote:

>    I've not seen any discussion of testing gcc trunk
> against the newer gmp 5.0 or 5.0.1 releases. Has anyone
> done significant testing with the newer gmp releases
> and are there any long term plans for bumping the
> required gmp (assuming that any of the new features
> or fixes are useful for gcc)? Thanks in advance for

GMP is mainly used via MPFR.  Thus, I'd expect the required version to be 
bumped if a new MPFR version was required that in turn required newer GMP, 
but otherwise there would be little use to a bump.  New MPFR would be 
required if needed for folding some function of use to GCC to fold 
(erfc_scaled has been mentioned as one it would be useful to the Fortran 
front end to have MPFR support for, for example, but SVN MPFR doesn't yet 
support it; if it gains support, that might justify a future increase in 
the required MPFR version).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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