On 16 August 2015 at 17:07, <20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Le vendredi 14 août 2015 19:36:55 UTC+2, Bill Hart a écrit :
>>
>> I appreciate the gesture, but it's better to contribute this to the
>> official GMP project. The reason is that it is in their namespace. If they
>> add a similar function later, it may end up with a different name, or worse
>> still, same name, different semantics!
>>
>>
> All right, I did a patch for GMP and submit it through the mailing list
> gmp-devel (including the suggestion of Frederik)... will see.
>
> That being said, it seems that they no longer use direct access to
> attributes but rather macro
>    x->_mp_d  for x an mpz_t is now PTR()
>    x->_mp_num for x an mpq_t is now NUM()
>    x->_mp_den for x an mpq_t is now DEN()
> I found many of the old version in the mpir comparison code compared to
> their.
>

Yes, we haven't had need to change many in MPIR. Obviously the GMP approach
is more future proof.

Bill.

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