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Re: gmp 2.0.2 test buglet
From: |
Torbjorn Granlund |
Subject: |
Re: gmp 2.0.2 test buglet |
Date: |
06 Dec 2000 17:44:13 +0100 |
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der Mouse <address@hidden> writes:
>> I've been using GMP 2.0.2 [...]
> GMP 2 is obolete. Please upgrade to GMP 3.1.1.
2.0.2 is known to work with the programs I use it with. If and when I
encounter a *functionality* lack, I may upgrade. Until then, "if it
ain't broke, don't fix it".
What an old-fashioned attitude in these days when people switch Linux
kernel of their GNU/Linux systems on a daily basis! :-)
But maybe 3.1.1 does fix some of the problems I've had with 2.0.2.
Does it fix the t-get_d problem I mentioned? Or any of these:
If you want to know which of your issues GMP 3 addresses, then I guess
you need to download it and find out. Oh no, I am not suggesting that
you upgrade to it, that's surely too risky.
Besides, your list is not really serious, it is merely an outcry of
frustration.
- All the advertised types are really arrays(!), thereby making it
impossible to, for example, assign a variable of type mpz_t to
another such(!!), and this being completely undocumented(!!!)?
Terrible isn't it!
But you're not correct that it is impossible to assign a mpz_t
variable from another such variable. It is clearly written in the
manual how to perform such assignment. (I won't tell you here, since
if you missed *that*, you clearly need to re-read the entire manual
anyway. :-)
But you cannot syntactically use `=' for assignment and thus cause
copying of pointers and malloc havoc, if that is what you mean!
--
Torbjörn