On Saturday 30 April 2011 09:05:26 Cactus wrote:
> On Apr 30, 8:40 am, Jason <ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I've removed the pa64 pa32 and s390 directory's and the associated
> > configure stuff and I've moved all the asm code from gmp-impl into the
> > architecture specific directory's and I've removed the -DNO_ASM option.
> > 
> > We still work under pa64 pa32 and s390 , but we use autotool's defaults
> > and anyone using these arch's would not be running MPIR anyway (these
> > are old mainframe/server chips and the only reason you would be using
> > one is that you dont want to change your software)
> > 
> > You can still pass the -DNO_ASM option , but it has no effect.
> > 
> > The recommended way to include mpir.h,gmp-impl,longlong if you wanted to
> > use (say popc_limb) is to
> > 
> > include mpir.h
> > include longlong.h
> > include gmp-impl.h
> > 
> > A lot of files do it this way though
> > 
> > include mpir.h
> > include gmp-impl.h
> > include longlong.h
> > 
> > this will still work.
> > 
> > Jason
> 
> For MSVC at least, longlong.h contains optimisations in defines that
> will be overiddden by less effective definitions in gmp-impl.h if the
> former order is used without using guards to prevent redefinitions in
> gmp-impl.h.
> 

I thought all the def's in gmp-impl were guarded , have I missed some?

> I am not arguing for the latter order but rather  for the use of one
> of these two orders everywhere so that we know where to put
> architecture specific optimisations.  I have guards in the MSVC
> longlong_inc.h but I notice that they aare not used in some other
> longlong_inc.h versions.

for this we only need to guard the def's in longlong that might be defined in 
gmp-impl.

I did think of doing a similar thing for gmp-impl , ie having a _pre and _post 
and a arch specific gmp-impl 

> 
>    Brian

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