Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
Roberto Bagnara bagnara@cs.unipr.it writes:
Notice that I am not posting this to gmp-bugs because it is not, I believe, a bug of GMP: we are fiddling with the internal details of GMP and this is something that goes beyond the API. Nonetheless, I wonder why many GMP functions accepts parameters of type `long int' (on non-Crays) when they can never handle anything that does not fit `int'.
I'm afraid I don't follow your reasoning here.
(I don't think any mpz/mpq/mpf functions accept mp_size_t arguments. The _ui functions accept an (unsigned) long int but that's 32-bit or 64-bit numerical data, which will at most add 32 or 64 to the _mp_size argument.)
Maybe "many" was the wrong word. But there are mpz and mpf functions that accept mp_size_t arguments:
void mpz_array_init (mpz_t integer_array[], size_t array_size, mp_size_t fixed_num_bits) void * _mpz_realloc (mpz_t integer, mp_size_t new_alloc) mp_limb_t mpz_getlimbn (mpz_t op, mp_size_t n) void mpz_random (mpz_t rop, mp_size_t max_size) void mpz_random2 (mpz_t rop, mp_size_t max_size) void mpf_random2 (mpf_t rop, mp_size_t max_size, mp_exp_t exp)
Cheers,
Roberto