On 2005-11-04 16:21:29 +0100, François-Xavier Coudert wrote: > > The newest version of mpfr will build a shared library. > > In fact, we should move to using the newest version, > > but I think some/many people would object to having two > > external library dependencies. > > What advantages have the newest version?
http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.2.0/#changes In any case, don't use the version that comes with GMP. It is old and *many* bugs have been fixed since. And the API has changed (it has been stable since version 2.0.2, AFAIK). > And (sorry for the obvious question) why isn't it kept in sync > with gmp? For several reasons. Mainly because MPFR is still in its early days (well, perhaps not as of 2.2.0), and thus we have more often bug fixes and various improvements. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
