Bitwise logic gmpxx.h problems

[Torbjorn Granlund]

Marc Glisse <marc.glisse at normalesup.org> writes:

  The proposed patches for & and &= add an overload of eval() for 
  __gmp_binary_and for unsigned long and add operators & and &= for all 
  numeric types (signed/unsigned char/shot/int/long and float/double) that 
  end up calling the eval() overloaded for unsigned long.
  
  Casting to unsigned long seems ok to me for integer types (don't know what 
  the meaning is of & with a negative argument) but not for float/double, 
  where something else should be done. The simplest is probably to overload 
  eval() for double as well as unsigned long. And then also overload it for 
  signed long, otherwise there will be ambiguities. This way the bit 
  operations look the same as addition in gmpxx. That means 12 more 
  functions compared to the already proposed changes.
  
Marc and Joppe!

Thanks for the explanations.  I think I now understand what needs to
be done.

For GMP 4.3, it would be nice to decrease the code repetitions and
avoid many mpz_init/mpz_clear by doig stack allocations.
  
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Torbjörn