Using MPZ_ROINIT_N in mpz sources

[Marco Bodrato]

Ciao,

Il Dom, 27 Novembre 2016 10:30 am, Niels Möller ha scritto:
> "Marco Bodrato" <bodrato at mail.dm.unipi.it> writes:
>> Moreover, can we slightly abuse it to obtain a static lazy init w/out
>> calling the _init function? E.g.
>
> If we want to do that, I think we should have a separate macro for the
> initializer (and preferably point to some shared read-only limb). Or
> make mpz_init inline?

A single shared limb is my goal too, but it's a cost (comparable to a
function call?) if we must use a shared symbol for it. IIRC Torbjörn said
that the symbol hiding stuff might not be able to mitigate this cost,
because of the PIC-only policy of some Linux distributions...
On the other side, inlining a function with a static const var inside
means, I believe, replicating lots of statics variables everywhere...

A separate macro would be good for readability and maintainability, you
are right.

Which kind of macro do you suggest?

One to be used in the declaration phase:
mpz_t temp = MPZ_PREINIT(...);
or a macro to be inserted in the code:
MPZ_INIT (temp,....);
?

Best regards,
m

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