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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ - Installing MPFR version 1.0.1 - ============================= + Installing MPFR version 1.1 + =========================== 0. You first need to install GMP. See <http://www.swox.com/gmp/>. - MPFR version 1.0 requires GMP version 3.0 or latter. + MPFR version 1.1 requires GMP version 3.0 or latter. After you have successfully built GMP, and installed it using "make install", you'll need to manually install some GMP header @@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ Notes: - we tested the installation with GMP 3.1 on the following architectures: -Pentium II and III/Linux 2.2.10 +Pentium II and III/Linux 2.2.10 or Windows +Athlon/Linux +PowerPC/Linux Alpha 21264 and 21164/OSF1 V4.0 SGI R10000/IRIX 6.5 Sun UltraSparc/Solaris 2.6 @@ -1,3 +1,21 @@ +Changes from version 1.0 to version 1.1: +- the default installation does not provide any more access to machine + rounding mode, and as a consequence does not compare MPFR results with + precision=53 to machine results. Add option -DTEST if you want to have + access to machine rounding mode, and to check MPFR results against. +- the MPFR files do not need <math.h> any more +- the header file <mpfr.h> was split into <mpfr.h> for exported functions + and <mpfr-impl.h> for internal functions. The user should not use functions + or macros from <mpfr-impl.h>, since those may change in further releases. +- <mpfr.h> was modified in order to make easy a C++ interface +- MPFR now deals with infinities (+infinity and -infinity) and NaN +- the missing function mpfr_swap is now available +- mpfr_zeta was removed (was incomplete) +- mpfr_init and mpfr_init2 now initialize the corresponding variable to 0 + (like in other initialization functions from GNU MP) +- in case memory allocation fails, an error message is output +- several bugs of version 0.4 were fixed + Changes from version 0.4 to version 1.0: - Version 1.0 now uses a standard configure/make installation. |