Bitwise logic gmpxx.h problems
Emmanuel Thomé
Emmanuel.Thome at normalesup.org
Fri Jul 25 00:30:14 CEST 2008
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:20:11PM +0200, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> Emmanuel Thomé <Emmanuel.Thome at normalesup.org> writes:
>
> > Do you base this on experiments, or on analysis from reading the code?
> >
> > There ought to be a reason for the ZZ variant, they are used just for
> > bitwise ops.
>
> perhaps precisely because without the patch you applied, it was wrong to
> use the __GMPZ_ and _GMP_ variants ? The only difference between __GMPZZ_
> and __GMPZ_ is the definition of compound operator with PODs as
> right-hand types (if you follow the macro maze).
>
> POD?
plain old datatype.
> I _think_ that with the provided patch, it is safe to do s/ZZ/Z/ here. Or
> there's some hidden can of worms somewhere that I haven't seen. Can you
> use your cvs tree to track back these lines to their author ?
>
> As far as I can tell, these lines come from Gerardo's original version.
so maybe a word of confirmation from him would be wise ?
To me, it looks ok to substitute.
E.
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