Hi all, it is with pleasure that we (finally) officially release MPIR 1.3.0. It is available at our website http://www.mpir.org/
Please note the following important things: * I have been unable to get any tests to pass on ultrasparc2 machines, including t2 (solaris) and gcc54 (linux). I am confident there are not bugs in the ultrasparc assembly code (as we haven't changed it and it worked before). Thus if someone can tell me how to get MPIR to behave on these machines "out-of-the-box" I will make the necessary changes to MPIR. In the mean time, we have to officially consider MPIR broken on such machines (or the machines we test on to be broken). Note this is *not* a Solaris issue as MPIR builds just fine on Solaris. * It is no longer necessary to issue make install gmp-compat, however it is still necessary to use --enable-gmpcompat with configure if you want a gmp.h and libgmp * Many users believe that mpz_nextprime returns a prime. In fact it is only guaranteed to define a number which is with high probability prime. For this reason the function has been deprecated. Please use the new mpz_next_likely_prime in its place. * Most of the random functions in MPIR which require global random state have been deprecated and new functions provided which have local state. This allows code using MPIR random functions to be threadsafe. * The functions mpz_div_2exp and mpz_div_ui have been removed from MPIR. These were deprecated many years ago, but many people have continued to use them. A quick workaround is to use the following defines: #ifndef mpz_div_2exp #define mpz_div_2exp mpz_tdiv_q_2exp #endif #ifndef mpz_div_ui #define mpz_div_ui mpz_tdiv_q_ui #endif However, the better fix is to actually replace all occurrences in code. (Users of FLINT will have to wait a couple of days until I issue an update to FLINT, in particular the quadratic sieve, which still uses the old functions - in the mean time, just add the above defines to flint.h). Bill. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
