Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> writes: However, the GMP manual says: [...] Here are some examples of how to declare such integers: mpz_t sum; struct foo { mpz_t x, y; }; mpz_t vec[20]; and doesn't forbid to copy the structure, for instance. I think it would be worth to mention that using several copies of a mpz_t is forbidden (or a write operation invalidates the other copies), here or in one of the next sections (BTW, the MPFR manual should be clarified too).
I agree this should be made explicit; users should not need to worry about the inner workings of our types (such as the fact that they contain a pointer). Would you want to contribute a patch for our manual? (I suppose it is fine to copy our types as long as you use all copies read-only. Now, copying them rather than passing around a reference to a single copy is a poor idea wrt memory use.) -- Torbjörn Please encrypt, key id 0xC8601622 _______________________________________________ gmp-bugs mailing list gmp-bugs@gmplib.org https://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-bugs