[Gmp-commit] /var/hg/www: 4 new changesets

Mon Dec 9 00:22:11 UTC 2013

details:   /var/hg/www/rev/e53069e0b2ba
changeset: 136:e53069e0b2ba
user:      Torbjorn Granlund <tege at gmplib.org>
date:      Mon Dec 09 01:19:32 2013 +0100
description:
Remove blank line.

details:   /var/hg/www/rev/6a3302f7acf9
changeset: 137:6a3302f7acf9
user:      Torbjorn Granlund <tege at gmplib.org>
date:      Mon Dec 09 01:20:04 2013 +0100
description:
Update policy.

details:   /var/hg/www/rev/8cbeea223658
changeset: 138:8cbeea223658
user:      Torbjorn Granlund <tege at gmplib.org>
date:      Mon Dec 09 01:20:55 2013 +0100
description:
Fix typos.

details:   /var/hg/www/rev/5b762fbf72a2
changeset: 139:5b762fbf72a2
user:      Torbjorn Granlund <tege at gmplib.org>
date:      Mon Dec 09 01:22:05 2013 +0100
description:
Clarify that older releases include newer releases' bugs.

diffstat:

 index.html        |   2 ++
 oldrel/index.html |  10 +++++-----
 robots.txt        |   1 -
 security.html     |  14 +++++++++-----
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diffs (110 lines):

diff -r a1a2fb1bc20d -r 5b762fbf72a2 index.html

--- a/index.html	Sat Dec 07 11:52:54 2013 +0100
+++ b/index.html	Mon Dec 09 01:22:05 2013 +0100
@@ -370,6 +370,7 @@
     digits.  No other GMP powm function is affected.
     <a href="https://gmplib.org/repo/gmp-5.1/raw-rev/ec4d88674036">Patch.</a>
   </li>
+  <li> See also issues for subsequent releases above. </li>
 </ul>
 <p>Issues with GMP 5.1.0:
 <ul>
@@ -383,6 +384,7 @@
      security problem affecting users who invoke this make target.  This
      problem (and no other) is corrected in the gmp-5.1.0a.tar.* set of
      files. </li>
+  <li> See also issues for subsequent releases above. </li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 
diff -r a1a2fb1bc20d -r 5b762fbf72a2 oldrel/index.html
--- a/oldrel/index.html	Sat Dec 07 11:52:54 2013 +0100
+++ b/oldrel/index.html	Mon Dec 09 01:22:05 2013 +0100
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
      The symptom is lots of crashes and miscomputations from<code> make
      check.</code>  These 11h processors are intermediates between K8 and K10,
      of sorts, in spite of that they have higher 'family' number than K10.
-<li> Se also issues for subsequent releases above. </li>
+<li> See also issues for subsequent releases above. </li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>Issues with GMP 5.0.3:
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 <li> There is a problem with certain division operations affecting 32-bit
      PowerPC.  The bug caused miscomputation for certain divisors in the range
      2^32 ... 2^64-1 (about 1 in 2^30 of these). </li>
-<li> Se also issues for subsequent releases above. </li>
+<li> See also issues for subsequent releases above. </li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>Issues with GMP 5.0.2:
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
      (for smaller operands, a simpler algorithm is used).
      <a href="https://gmplib.org/repo/gmp-5.0/raw-rev/538dfce27f41">Patch</a>.
      </li>
-<li> Se also issues for subsequent releases above. </li>
+<li> See also issues for subsequent releases above. </li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>Issues with GMP 5.0.1:
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
      where GMP uses "long long" for internal computations.  Examples of such
      ABIs are MIPS n32, HPUX 2.0n, and PowerPC mode32.
      <a href="https://gmplib.org/repo/gmp-5.0/raw-rev/794410151f5f">Patch</a>. </li>
-<li> Se also issues for subsequent releases above. </li>
+<li> See also issues for subsequent releases above. </li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>Issues with GMP 5.0.0 (see also info about 5.0.1 above):
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
      overrun may occur.  The overrun can be arbitrarily large.  The problem is
      a completely incorrect allocation in <code>mpf_set_str</code> (in the
      file <code>mpf/set_str.c</code>), where the destination variable's precision
-     was used for an allocation that needed a size propotional to the string
+     was used for an allocation that needed a size proportional to the string
      size.  <a href="../patches/mpf_set_str.c.2.diff">Patch</a>
 </ul>
 
diff -r a1a2fb1bc20d -r 5b762fbf72a2 robots.txt
--- a/robots.txt	Sat Dec 07 11:52:54 2013 +0100
+++ b/robots.txt	Mon Dec 09 01:22:05 2013 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 User-agent: *
-
 Disallow: /devel/testmachines
 Disallow: /devel/lcov
 Disallow: /manual-4.2.1
diff -r a1a2fb1bc20d -r 5b762fbf72a2 security.html
--- a/security.html	Sat Dec 07 11:52:54 2013 +0100
+++ b/security.html	Mon Dec 09 01:22:05 2013 +0100
@@ -60,14 +60,12 @@
 <ol>
   <li> Incoming email from IP-addresses on Spamhaus' zen blacklist. </li>
   <li> Incoming email from PR China. </li>
-  <li> Incoming ftp connections from PR China. </li>
 </ol>
 
 <p>
-Let us add that we are not happy with blocking rules 2 and 3 but these are the
-only practical rules that are easy to implement and which can prevent attacks
-that have appeared frequently in the past.  To download GMP, please use a
-mirror site.
+Let us add that we are not happy with blocking rule 2 but it is the only
+practical rule that is easy to implement and which can prevent problems that
+have appeared frequently in the past.
 </p>
 
 <p>
@@ -84,6 +82,12 @@
 policy.
 </p>
 
+<p>
+We block Microsoft's "bingbot" since it does not honour the
+<a href="https://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard">Robots
+exclusion standard</a> and furthermore performs unlawful file name probing.
+</p>
+
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