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 -- Steve
