On Saturday 10 January 2009 02:13:31 Bill Hart wrote: > Actually NAILS=1 isn't so hot either. :-)
I read somewhere , on gmp list i think, that gmp never supported odd nails , but TG never got around to disable the configure for it. I remember this from when nails first came out . define nails so that we GMP_NUMB_BITS=4 , ie a 4bit limb , exhaustive testing possible... > > 2009/1/10 mabshoff <michael.absh...@mathematik.uni-dortmund.de>: > > On Jan 9, 5:39 pm, "Jason Martin" <jason.worth.mar...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > >> I'd like to get rid of NAILS support. It adds a huge amount of > >> complication, and I haven't seen it actually pan out for any modern > >> processor. > >> > >> I vote for leaving the existing NAILS code alone, but explicitly > >> stating that NAILS is not supported. Perhaps, if we do discover some > >> use for it, it might be worth the extra effort to go back and support > >> it. > > > > Yep, I can get on board with that. Given the number of bugs found in > > NAILS support recently by just compiling with odd values or something > > larger than 2 tells me that it isn't working to well. > > > > David reported some of the issues, so maybe he has good reasons for > > keeping it around. > > > >> Jason Worth Martin > >> Asst. Professor of Mathematicshttp://www.math.jmu.edu/~martin > > > > Cheers, > > > > Michael > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
