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Diffstat (limited to 'src/mpfr.h')
-rw-r--r-- | src/mpfr.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/mpfr.h b/src/mpfr.h index 652eafd88..ee907d1e4 100644 --- a/src/mpfr.h +++ b/src/mpfr.h @@ -136,7 +136,11 @@ typedef enum { /* Let's make mpfr_prec_t signed in order to avoid problems due to the usual arithmetic conversions when mixing mpfr_prec_t and mpfr_exp_t - in an expression (for error analysis) if casts are forgotten. */ + in an expression (for error analysis) if casts are forgotten. + Note: mpfr_prec_t is currently limited to "long". This means that + under MS Windows, the precisions are limited to about 2^31; however, + these are already huge precisions, probably sufficient in practice + on this platform. */ #if _MPFR_PREC_FORMAT == 1 typedef short mpfr_prec_t; typedef unsigned short mpfr_uprec_t; |