Package: gmp Severity: wishlist ----- Forwarded message from Torbjorn Granlund <t...@gmplib.org> -----
Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 13:03:58 +0200 From: Torbjorn Granlund <t...@gmplib.org> To: gmp-annou...@gmplib.org Subject: GMP 5.0.2 released! A new release of the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) is now available. The new release is identified as 5.0.2. The new release can be downloaded from the main GNU ftp site: bzip2 format: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-5.0.2.tar.bz2 gzip format: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-5.0.2.tar.gz These files can also be found from the main GMP domain, e.g. ftp://ftp.gmplib.org/pub/gmp/gmp-5.0.2.tar.bz2. The changes between this release and the previous release are limited to various safe bug fixes and portability improvements. When we initially announced GMP 5.0, we cautioned about the large amount of new code in this release series. We now feel that the code base is mature, and consider 5.0.2 as a stable release. We recommend everyone to switch from earlier GMP releases to this release. While GMP bugs do happen, the absolutely most common cause for incorrect computations with GMP is bugs in the compiler used for building he library. It cannot be said enough times: Please run "make check" after you've built your library. And if "make check" stops with an error, do not use the compiled library. When this happens, you've almost surely run into a compiler bug, not a library bug, since we've of course made sure the library passes its own test suite. The first thing to try at this point is using a different compiler. See also http://gmplib.org/. Of the more recent GCC releases, version 4.3.2 is known to miscompile this GMP release on all 64-bit platforms; this manifests itself at a check failure in tests/mpz/t-root.c. The GMP 5.0 release series would not have been possible without the very devoted work of Niels M�ller and Marco Bodrato. As usual, Torbj�rn Granlund coordinated the development and release, and did a fair amount of development work himself. Changes between GMP version 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 BUGS FIXED * Many minor bugs related to portability fixed. * The support for HPPA 2.0N now works, after an assembly bug fix. * A test case type error has been fixed. The symptom of this bug was spurious 'make check' failures. SPEEDUPS * None, except indirectly through recognition of new CPUs. FEATURES * Fat builds are now supported for 64-bit x86 processors also under Darwin. MISC * None. There is a public repository for GMP, please see the GMP web site at http://gmplib.org/ for more information. Torbj�rn's work on GMP is sponsored by "Stiftelsen f�r Strategisk Forskning", through CIAM at KTH, http://www.ciam.kth.se/. -- Torbj�rn _______________________________________________ gmp-announce mailing list gmp-annou...@gmplib.org http://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-announce ----- End forwarded message ----- -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
