[Gmp-commit] /var/hg/gmp-5.0: Mention fixed ppc32 bug.

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details:   /var/hg/gmp-5.0/rev/c57ded5c8958
changeset: 13557:c57ded5c8958
user:      Torbjorn Granlund <tege at gmplib.org>
date:      Wed Feb 08 23:04:36 2012 +0100
description:
Mention fixed ppc32 bug.

diffstat:

 NEWS |  4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diffs (14 lines):

diff -r 66145957ec42 -r c57ded5c8958 NEWS
--- a/NEWS	Wed Feb 08 22:58:55 2012 +0100
+++ b/NEWS	Wed Feb 08 23:04:36 2012 +0100
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
     a third bug, but that was an incorrect ASSERT, which furthermore
     was not enabled by default.)
 
+  * A bug in affecting 32-bit PowerPC division has been fixed.  The bug caused
+    miscomputation for certain divisors in the range 2^32 ... 2^64-1 (probably
+    about 1 in 2^30 of these).
+
   SPEEDUPS
   * None, except indirectly through recognition of new CPUs, and through better
     tuning parameters.