I can confirm that t-get_ux passes on an Itanium with a working compiler. So it is definitely not an MPIR bug, as Jason found.
We also had failures on a solaris machine and gcc70 for the same test. Bill. On 19 July 2012 20:27, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > we are currently working on the MPIR 2.6 release. The main new features are: > > * new Windows 64 functionality (due to Brian Gladman) > * new FFT (due to William Hart) > > The code has been developed on a separate branch, mpir-exp > (http://boxen.math.washington.edu/svn/mpir/mpir/branches/mpir-exp in > svn repo). > > Here is the remaining list of things to do: > > * tuneup fails on mpir-exp branch > * generic build option for sage > * mpir build fails on MinGW due to mpn_addmul_2 symbol defined twice Pavel > * Vlad report of MinGW sandybridge combination with FFT assert failure > * Chris report of mpz_get_ux failure on Itanium > * mpz_powm_ui doc says -ve exponent supported, which is rubbish > * fix flint bugs in primality testing code > * 32 and 64 bit tuning for fft > * make sure the redc_2 include bug is fixed in trunk > * set up autotools to recognize new mpn/generic/mulmod_bexpp1.c file > > Regarding the last item, Jason, would you be able to do the autoconf > stuff for this. My autotools is out-of-date and our system won't allow > us to install a more recent version (autotools fanboys observe -- > autotools sucks once again). > > Regarding the mpz_get_ux bug on Itanium, this fails on many > architectures, due to a common gcc bug. Jason wanted to set up a test > to reject all such broken compilers, but the test has to be run after > the test for stdint.h which isn't possible. So it is not possible to > reject such compilers. Which is probably just as well, as they are > extremely common. So we will just have to stick with the failing test. > Nothing we can do about it apparently. We'll add it to the long list > of known issues about which we can do nothing. > > Bill. -- 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.
