On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Marco Bodrato wrote: > A new major release of the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library > (GMP) is now available. The new release is identified as 6.1.0. > > The release can be downloaded from here: > > https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.1.0.tar.lz (smallest) > https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.1.0.tar.xz > https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.1.0.tar.bz2 (largest) > > These files will also soon be found at the GNU main site as well as its > many mirrors. > > Signature files are also available: > > https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.1.0.tar.lz.sig > https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.1.0.tar.xz.sig > https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.1.0.tar.bz2.sig
It seems those signatures were created with a key not listed on gmplib.org. Can you please amend the list? Richard. > The 6.1.0 release contains a considerable amount of new code, and many > improvements to existing code. Please see below for the some high- > lights. > > As usually, we repeat and underline: please run "make check" after > you've built your library. And if "make check" stops with an error, > do not use the compiled library. When this happens, you've almost > surely run into a compiler bug, not a GMP bug, since we've of course > made sure the library passes its own test suite. The first thing to > try at this point is using a different compiler. See also > https://gmplib.org/. > > We have further expanded the testing configurations to over 1500. > Thanks to both the broad testing and careful development, we expect > this to be a very stable release. > > This release would not have been possible without the continuous work > of improvement, revision and refinement by the whole GMP team: > Torbjörn Granlund, Niels Möller, Marco Bodrato, and Marc Glisse. > > The GMP team is pleased to thank also the many people who contributed > to the quality of this release with suggestions, bug reports, and > small bug-fixes (an unordered and surely non-exhaustive list follows): > Hannes Mehnert, Hans Wennborg, Linus Nordberg, Paul Zimmermann, > Richard Biener, George Kozlowski, Albert Chin, Peter Breitenlohner, > Leif Leonhardy, Yihang Ho, Viktor Kletzhändler, Vicente Benjumea, > Vincent Lefevre, Vincent Delecroix, Steve M. Robbins and all the > participant to the mailing-lists of the project... > > Changes between GMP version 6.0.* and 6.1.0 > > BUGS FIXED > * The public function mpn_com is now correctly declared in gmp.h. > > * Healed possible failures of mpn_sec_sqr for non-cryptographic sizes > for some obsolete CPUs. > > * The option --disable-assembly now disables all inlined asm. > > * Fixed bug affecting mini-gmp's bitwise functions mpz_setbit, > mpz_clrbit, and mpz_combit. > > * Various problems related to precision for mpf have been fixed. > > * Fixed ABI incompatible stack alignment in calls from assembly code. > > * Fixed PIC bug in popcount affecting Intel processors using the > 32-bit ABI. > > SPEEDUPS > * Speedup for Intel Broadwell and Skylake though assembly code making > use of new ADX instructions. > > * Square root is now faster when the remainder is not needed. Also the > speed to compute the k-th root improved, for small sizes. > > * Improved arm64 support. > > FEATURES > * New C++ functions gcd and lcm for mpz_class. > > * New public mpn functions mpn_divexact_1, mpn_zero_p, and mpn_cnd_swap. > > * New public mpq_cmp_z function, to efficiently compare rationals with > integers. > > * Support for Darwin in all x86 code, thereby enabling fat builds > on Darwin. > > * Support for more 32-bit arm processors. > > * Support for compilation with clang/llvm on more platforms. > Caution: GMP triggers mis-compilation bugs in clang for many > platforms, such as arm, x86 (32-bit and 64-bit), powerpc, mips. > > * Support for AVX-less modern x86 CPUs. (Such support might be missing > either because the CPU vendor chose to disable AVX, or because the > running kernel lacks AVX context switch support.) > > * Stack usage trimmed; we believe 512 KiB is now sufficient for any GMP > call, irrespective of operand size. > > * Support for NetBSD under Xen; we switch off AVX unconditionally under > NetBSD since a bug in NetBSD makes AVX fail under Xen. > > MISC > * We now use manufacturers' code names for x86 CPUs, e.g., "haswell" > instead of names derived from the commercial brands. > > * Small improvements and better coverage for the test suite. > > * The various FreeBSD problems listed for 6.0.0 affect this release too. > > * Tuned values for FFT multiplications are provided for larger number > on many platforms. > > Best regards, > Marco Bodrato (0xC1A000b0) > > _______________________________________________ > gmp-announce mailing list > gmp-annou...@gmplib.org > https://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-announce > -- Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de> SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) _______________________________________________ gmp-devel mailing list gmp-devel@gmplib.org https://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-devel