[mpir-devel] Re: Nails in the coffin

2009-01-10 Thread Bill Hart
Yes, nails can be useful for testing. But for now I've disabled it at the configure level. Only --enable-nails=0 and --enable-nails=no (or no nails option at all) are now valid. Bill. 2009/1/10 : > > On Saturday 10 January 2009 02:13:31 Bill Hart wrote: >> Actually NAILS=1 isn't so hot either.

[mpir-devel] Re: Nails in the coffin

2009-01-10 Thread jason
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 s

[mpir-devel] Re: Nails in the coffin

2009-01-09 Thread Bill Hart
Actually NAILS=1 isn't so hot either. :-) 2009/1/10 mabshoff : > > > On Jan 9, 5:39 pm, "Jason Martin" > 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 leavi

[mpir-devel] Re: Nails in the coffin

2009-01-09 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 9, 5:39 pm, "Jason Martin" 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 sup

[mpir-devel] Re: Nails in the coffin

2009-01-09 Thread Jason Martin
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 migh