-------- Original Message -------- Subject: GMP 4.0 released Date: 01 Dec 2001 12:41:24 +0100 From: Torbjorn Granlund tege@swox.com To: gmp@swox.com
[We're actually waiting for ftp-upload@gnu.org to copy gmp-4.0.tar.gz in place. In the meantime, we've put it here: ftp://ftp.swox.se/pub/gmp/src/gmp-4.0.tar.gz. Swox has very limited bandwidth, so please do not spread the word...]
Version 4.0 of the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) has been released. This is a major release, with important new features, speed improvements, and bug fixes,
The source code is available from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-4.0.tar.gz
and many mirrors (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for a full list of mirrors). The GMP home page is found at:
Please send bug reports and comments to bug-gmp@gnu.org.
GMP 4.0 was finished and released by Torbjörn Granlund and Kevin Ryde. For a complete list of contributors, please see gmp.texi in the distribution.
Changes between MP version 3.1.1 and 4.0:
* Bug fixes. * Speed improvements. * Upwardly binary compatible with 3.x versions. * New CPU support: IA-64, Pentium 4. * Improved CPU support: 21264, Cray vector systems. * Support for all MIPS ABIs: o32, n32, 64. * New systems supported: Darwin, SCO, Windows DLLs. * New divide-and-conquer square root algorithm. * New algorithms chapter in the manual. * New malloc reentrant temporary memory method. * New C++ class interface by Gerardo Ballabio (beta). * Revamped configure, featuring ABI selection. * Speed improvements for mpz_powm and mpz_powm_ui (mainly affecting small operands). * mpz_perfect_power_p now properly recognizes 0, 1, and negative perfect powers. * mpz_hamdist now supports negative operands. * mpz_jacobi now accepts non-positive denominators. * mpz_powm now supports negative exponents. * mpn_mul_1 operand overlap requirements relaxed. * Float input and output uses locale specific decimal point where available. * New gmp_printf, gmp_scanf and related functions. * New division functions: mpz_cdiv_q_2exp, mpz_cdiv_r_2exp, mpz_divexact_ui. * New divisibility tests: mpz_divisible_p, mpz_divisible_ui_p, mpz_divisible_2exp_p, mpz_congruent_p, mpz_congruent_ui_p, mpz_congruent_2exp_p. * New Fibonacci function: mpz_fib2_ui. * New Lucas number functions: mpz_lucnum_ui, mpz_lucnum2_ui. * Other new integer functions: mpz_cmp_d, mpz_cmpabs_d, mpz_get_d_2exp, mpz_init2, mpz_kronecker, mpz_lcm_ui, mpz_realloc2. * New rational I/O: mpq_get_str, mpq_inp_str, mpq_out_str, mpq_set_str. * Other new rational functions: mpq_abs, mpq_cmp_si, mpq_div_2exp, mpq_mul_2exp, mpq_set_f. * New float tests: mpf_integer_p, mpf_fits_sint_p, mpf_fits_slong_p, mpf_fits_sshort_p, mpf_fits_uint_p, mpf_fits_ulong_p, mpf_fits_ushort_p. * Other new float functions: mpf_cmp_d, mpf_get_default_prec, mpf_get_si, mpf_get_ui, mpf_get_d_2exp. * New random functions: gmp_randinit_default, gmp_randinit_lc_2exp_size. * New demo expression string parser (see demos/expr). * New preliminary perl interface (see demos/perl). * Tuned algorithm thresholds for many more CPUs.