Thanks for the feedback.
I don't know much about MPIR.
I'm talking to some GMP developers.
There is someone there who is planning on improving the situation
there...at least, for the temporary memory allocations done by mpn-level
routines in GMP, which is my main concern.
On Monday, December 15, 2
On 2014-12-15 20:15, Victor Shoup wrote:
As I get closer to finishing this, I'm thinking more about gmp's lack of
proper error handling, which is just like NTL's currently: print error message
and
call abort.
No, MPIR (I haven't checked GMP, but I guess it's the same) is far
worse. MPIR doesn't
I've just uploaded a bug-fix version of NTL (version 7.0.2) at
www.shoup.net/ntl.
Probably does not affect any Sage code, though.
Also, I'm getting closer to finish my quixotic quest to make NTL exception
safe.
It is an interesting experience, as I'm learning how to make use of "modern"
C++ idio