MPFR 2.1.0 Release candidate

Patrick Pelissier Patrick.Pelissier at loria.fr
Fri Oct 15 15:34:36 CEST 2004


The release of MPFR 2.1.0 is imminent. Please help to make this
release as good as possible by downloading and testing this
release candidate:

http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.1.0/mpfr-2.1.0-rc1.tar.gz

Changes from version 2.0.3 to version 2.1.0:

+All bugs reported in previous releases should be fixed.
+New functions:
  mpfr_strtofr, mpfr_set_uj, mpfr_set_sj, mpfr_set_ui_2exp,
  mpfr_set_si_2exp, mpfr_set_sj_2exp, mpfr_set_uj_2exp, mpfr_get_uj,
  mpfr_get_sj, mpfr_get_z, mpfr_free_str, mpfr_si_sub, mpfr_sub_si,
  mpfr_mul_si, mpfr_si_div, mpfr_div_si, mpfr_sqr, mpfr_cmp_z, mpfr_cmp_q,
  mpfr_zero_p, mpfr_free_cache, mpfr_sum, mpfr_get_version,
  mpfr_get_default_rounding_mode, mpfr_get_emin_min, mpfr_get_emin_max,
  mpfr_get_emax_min, mpfr_get_emax_max, mpfr_inits, mpfr_inits2, mpfr_clears,
  mpfr_fits_intmax_p, mpfr_fits_uintmax_p, mpfr_clear_erangeflag,
  mpfr_erangeflag_p, mpfr_rint_round, mpfr_rint_trunc, mpfr_rint_ceil,
  mpfr_rint_floor.
+New macros:
  MPFR_DECL_INIT, MPFR_VERSION, MPFR_VERSION_NUM,
  MPFR_VERSION_MAJOR, MPFR_VERSION_MINOR, MPFR_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL.
+Improve documentation and portability.
+Handle correctly non IEEE-754 double.
+Can be built with or without GMP internal files.
+Faster for low-precision.
+New global flag: ERANGE_FLAG.


Please send success and failure reports to mpfr at loria.fr.

If no problem is found, it should be released on 2004/10/21.

 Sincerely,
  Patrick Pelissier
 


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