Extending the mpn interface

[Niels Möller]

bodrato at mail.dm.unipi.it writes:

> A comment about roinit...

> This function trusts the caller with regards to normalisation. I'm not
> sure I like this. I think we should:
>  - normalize (same code as mpz_limbs_finish) before setting SIZ, or
>  - add an ASSERT (xs == 0 || xp[ABS (xs)] != 0), and add a "normalize"
> function or macro to the documented interface.

I agree it makes sense to let this function do normalization.

We might want to have a public MPN_NORMALIZE anyway, but that's
a separate issue.

And MPN_ROINIT_N can't normalize, of course.

Regards,
/Niels

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