Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

[Markus Milleder]

Vincent Lefevre schrieb am 13.10.2008 16:16:38:

> On 2008-10-07 21:42:30 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > But is there any "need to upgrade" to 2.3.2 since it would fix a bug
> > gcc ran into?
>
> FYI, GCC can be affected by some bugs in MPFR 2.3.0, amongst the bugs

<snip bug list>

> All these bugs were fixed in MPFR 2.3.1. AFAIK, MPFR 2.3.2 should
> not make any difference for GCC. The fixed bugs are listed here:

<snip again>

This seems to call for MPFR 2.3.1 as a minimum version for GCC 4.4

However, let me ask the reverse question:

Is there any reason not to demand 2.3.2 for GCC 4.4 ? Or even the newest MPFR version published before creating the GCC 4.4 release branch (which could be 2.3.3) ?

      Markus Milleder