[PATCH 01/20] Delete mpn/generic/sizeinbase.c

Niels Möller nisse at lysator.liu.se
Mon Mar 4 20:55:28 CET 2013


Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle.net> writes:

> As far as I can tell it hasn't been used since
>
> 2002-02-09  Kevin Ryde  <kevin at swox.se>
>
>         * configure.in, mpn/Makefile.am, gmp-impl.h (mpn_sizeinbase): Remove.
>         * mpn/generic/sizeinbase.c: Remove file.
>
> removed it from MPN_OBJECTS.  It's certainly never built.

Does anyone remember why it was deleted back then? I think it makes a
lot of sense as a public mpn function.

The file has seen some non-trivial updates by Torbjörn and Marco in
recent years.

Regards,
/Niels

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