Re: gmp 2.0.2 test buglet

[Torbjorn Granlund]

der Mouse <address@hidden> writes:

  >> I've been using GMP 2.0.2 [...]
  > GMP 2 is obolete.  Please upgrade to GMP 3.1.1.
  
  2.0.2 is known to work with the programs I use it with.  If and when I
  encounter a *functionality* lack, I may upgrade.  Until then, "if it
  ain't broke, don't fix it".
  
What an old-fashioned attitude in these days when people switch Linux
kernel of their GNU/Linux systems on a daily basis!  :-)

  But maybe 3.1.1 does fix some of the problems I've had with 2.0.2.
  Does it fix the t-get_d problem I mentioned?  Or any of these:
  
If you want to know which of your issues GMP 3 addresses, then I guess
you need to download it and find out.  Oh no, I am not suggesting that
you upgrade to it, that's surely too risky.

Besides, your list is not really serious, it is merely an outcry of
frustration.
  
  - All the advertised types are really arrays(!), thereby making it
    impossible to, for example, assign a variable of type mpz_t to
    another such(!!), and this being completely undocumented(!!!)?
  
Terrible isn't it!

But you're not correct that it is impossible to assign a mpz_t
variable from another such variable.  It is clearly written in the
manual how to perform such assignment.  (I won't tell you here, since
if you missed *that*, you clearly need to re-read the entire manual
anyway.  :-)

But you cannot syntactically use `=' for assignment and thus cause
copying of pointers and malloc havoc, if that is what you mean!

-- 
Torbjörn