On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Jack Howarth wrote: > I've not seen any discussion of testing gcc trunk > against the newer gmp 5.0 or 5.0.1 releases. Has anyone > done significant testing with the newer gmp releases > and are there any long term plans for bumping the > required gmp (assuming that any of the new features > or fixes are useful for gcc)? Thanks in advance for
GMP is mainly used via MPFR. Thus, I'd expect the required version to be bumped if a new MPFR version was required that in turn required newer GMP, but otherwise there would be little use to a bump. New MPFR would be required if needed for folding some function of use to GCC to fold (erfc_scaled has been mentioned as one it would be useful to the Fortran front end to have MPFR support for, for example, but SVN MPFR doesn't yet support it; if it gains support, that might justify a future increase in the required MPFR version). -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
