Hi, On 2010-03-29 17:05:09 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > 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).
FYI, if someone is interested, anyone can contribute: http://www.mpfr.org/contrib.html Otherwise, I fear that the implementation of most functions will not happen before several years. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
