Roberto Bagnara <bagnara@cs.unipr.it> writes:

it seems that C++ statements of the form

a += b*c

for a, b and c of type mpz_class, are not translated by the C++ interface into an invocation of mpz_addmul.

Alas you're right. mpz_addmul is only used for "mpq += mpz" at the moment. (Hmm. Should use mpz_addmul_ui for "mpq += ulong" too I guess.)

The reason I am asking is twofold: on the one hand, expressions like that are quite common in several applications and they usually occur in critical computation paths (e.g., applications computing zillions of scalar products);

You can call mpz_addmul directly with mpz_class::get_mpz_t if you want. Not terribly pretty, but it'll work right now.

on the other hand, the template machinery used to implement the C++ interface of GMP would seem powerful enough to do the right thing.

I wonder if the templating can cope with two operators like that.

Am I missing something? If not, are there any plans to enhance the C++ interface so as to capture this case?

Gerardo?