From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28325 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2010 11:57:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 28311 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Mar 2010 11:57:06 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from vinc17.pck.nerim.net (HELO prunille.vinc17.org) (213.41.242.187) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:57:01 +0000 Received: by prunille.vinc17.org (Postfix, from userid 501) id 23338497C42E; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:56:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:03:00 -0000 From: Vincent Lefevre To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: gmp 5.0.1 and gcc 4.5? Message-ID: <20100330115658.GG14245@prunille.vinc17.org> Mail-Followup-To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <20100329165547.GA2283@bromo.med.uc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Mailer-Info: http://www.vinc17.org/mutt/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20-6065-vl-r35499 (2010-03-23) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-03/txt/msg00436.txt.bz2 Hi, On 2010-03-29 17:05:09 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > GMP is mainly used via MPFR. Thus, I'd expect the required version to be > bumped if a new MPFR version was required that in turn required newer GMP, > but otherwise there would be little use to a bump. New MPFR would be > required if needed for folding some function of use to GCC to fold > (erfc_scaled has been mentioned as one it would be useful to the Fortran > front end to have MPFR support for, for example, but SVN MPFR doesn't yet > support it; if it gains support, that might justify a future increase in > the required MPFR version). FYI, if someone is interested, anyone can contribute: http://www.mpfr.org/contrib.html Otherwise, I fear that the implementation of most functions will not happen before several years. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)