Lazy mpz allocation

[Marco Bodrato]

Ciao,

Il Gio, 19 Aprile 2018 4:37 pm, Marc Glisse ha scritto:
> I finally pushed it. It seemed unsafe to keep mpq unaware of lazy
> allocation, in case people start swapping the numerator of a rational with
> a lazy 0 integer or something like that.

If we fear swaps, then ... what about swapping the deoniminator?

Should we support a code like:

  mpz_init (saved_denominator);
  mpz_swap (saved_denominator, mpq_denref(rational));
  /* Code overwriting rational*/

?

If yes, a larger patch is needed, I attach a proposal.

Ĝis,
m

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