Regarding <http://gmplib.org/devel/tm-date.html>.
Some of you might have spotted build errors for solaris, with -fat. This is due to a static allocation of their m4. I've worked around it, so next build round should pass. A much worse error happens with Intel Haswell under FreeBSD 8 ad 9; here almost all GMP test fail. It is also m4 that is the culprit here. FreeBSD m4's eval function is quite broken in that the 2nd and 3rd arguments are completely ignored: fbsd$ echo 'eval(12245853,16)' | m4 12245853 The correct output for that example is "BADB5D"... The result is that incorrect opcodes are generated for some Haswell specific instructions. It is ironic that we handle these insns with m4 mainly because FreeBSD insists on using an antique assembler, so we hit a 2nd bug when working around the 1st... (I reported this bug 1.5 years ago to FreeBSD, when we first were bitten by it. They've fixed it in their upcming 10.0 release, but left it unfixed in 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, and 9.1.) -- Torbjörn _______________________________________________ gmp-devel mailing list gmp-devel@gmplib.org http://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-devel