How to use GMP.

Hashida jhashida@fls.fujitsu.com
Thu, 08 May 2003 15:36:24 +0900


Is it bad to know?

Hashida

Safuat Hamdy wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 May 2003 21:08, Hashida wrote:
>
> > In addition, what does "_mp_alloc" mean?
> > Is "aaaaa._mp_alloc" 2 because "aaaaa" is used twice in mpz_*** ?
> > (set 1 in "mpz_init" and set 2 in "mpz_mul_ui")
>
> Boy, why don't you just use the regular interface?!!  Ordinary users, and
> particularly beginners, are not supposed to fiddle around with the internals
> of mpz_t objects.
>
> Just say
>
>         mpz_t   a, b;
>
>         ...
>
> and you're fine!  No strange results!
>
> Since you yourself said that you are rather new to C _and_ GMP, you really
> should _first_ get some experience with just C before exploring the GMP
> internals.  But even so, some GMP internals are descibed in the manual.
>
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