Stuart Stegall wrote:
> I noticed that MPFR 3.0.0 was added to the Development Book.  Two
> things I noticed about this:
> 
> 1. There are 156 tests now (that's with the patch mentioned in 2 ..)
> 
> 2. There's a patch for MPFR 3.0.0: http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/patch01
> The patch is necessary as there's a problem with the released 3.0.0.
> 
> Patch notes:
> 
> The integer value returned by the mpfr_out_str function is incorrect
> on NaN and infinities. Moreover output errors are not handled, and if
> such an error occurs, the return value is incorrect (it should have
> been 0). These bugs are fixed by the mpfr_out_str.patch (which also
> provides additional tests of mpfr_out_str).
> 
> I'm guessing there are 155 tests without this patch.

Thanks for the heads up.  Generally, we wait for the devs to release a 
new package when they find bugs.  It's hard enough to stay up to date 
with released packages.  We don't have the resources to track every bug 
that gets identified upstream.

   -- Bruce

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