> I'd like to move to C99 soon. Nice. Any particular C99 features you'd like to use? Some of the features (from the list on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99):
I am aware of that there are no compelling features provided with C99, and that the ones at all relevant to us will not bring new GMP user features. I would like to add "long long" arguments and return values to user visible functions, though. While that will not improve any semantics of the interface for 64-bit *nix computers, it will slightly improve the interface, and also improve the semantics for 32-bit systems and for Windoze. It would be nice to allow users to use old compilers for application compiles, which means that we'll need to declare any "long long" functions behind some cpp conditional (__STDC_VERSION__). We should make absolutely sure that slightly outdated gcc does not need any extra command line arguments for compiling user code. Shall we move to a newer C++ standard too? I know we discussed this in the past, but I don't remember the pros and cons of moving to any particular standard. I believe C++ is less critical as it is still not compiled by default; we might therefore ask for a newer standard there. About the new release; I'd like to call it 6.2. I am not sure when to invoke the magic increment to the most significant version digit, but it is probably not now. (I suppose GMP 7 could add the range extension features recently discussed, and perhaps do some of the cleanups listed here: <https://gmplib.org/devel/incompatibility.html> and then of course Nisse's FFT code which he is eager to finish.) -- Torbjörn Please encrypt, key id 0xC8601622 _______________________________________________ gmp-devel mailing list gmp-devel@gmplib.org https://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-devel