mpn_sizeinbase

Niels Möller nisse at lysator.liu.se
Fri Jun 15 07:07:59 CEST 2012


bodrato at mail.dm.unipi.it writes:

> About documentation... shall we explicitly document a supported way to
> obtain an mpn form an mpz, and viceversa? The following should always
> work, right?
>
> /* {np, nn} <- |z| */
> mpz_export (np, &nn, -1, sizeof(mp_limb_t), 0, sizeof(mp_limb_t) * 8 -
> mp_bits_per_limb, z);

That seems quite awkward to me. I think it would make more sense to
document the contents of an mpz_t.

Regards,
/Niels

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