div.c and other questions

[Mike Loehr]

Greetings;

I don't want to re-ignite the Microsoft compiler discussions, but there is a
specific error in compiling div.c as reported by MSVC 6.

In the div.c code a variable is called 'near'.  MSVC 6 reports that this is
an old calling convention and is not supported and stops due the error. I'm
assuming this is a very very old calling convention when near and far
variable calls were used with stone knives and bearskins.  But MSVC kicks
about it so I have to deal with it.

I've changed the variable name to mpfr_near (and others), and div.c compiles
and functions correctly.  Making the change in the main MPFR code would seem
to be trivial and would enhance MPFR's cross platform capabilities.

My other questions are related to building the MPFR tests.  

The first question has to do with mpfr_print_binary.  The function was moved
from mpfr.h to mpfr_impl.h.  Is the intent to retain the function only for
programmers?  The function is required for building most (all?) of the test
suite, and I'd think it could live back in mpfr.h.  You may be asking
yourself why would it matter.  The precise issue is that I'm trying to build
a MSVC 6 DLL for MPFR (I've been working with Brian Gladman's release to
minimize the number of branches of code).  Moving mpfr_print_binary back to
mpfr.h allows all of the editing work to provide the code for exporting to
the DLL in one file.  This keeps the branches more nearly identical (look at
how divergent GTK had become between the main and win32 branches, ugh!).

The second question relates to other functions such as mpfr_set_str_binary
that are needed for the tests but aren't in mpfr.h.  These functions would
seem to be useful in a 'full DLL release'.  Are there specific reasons why
functions were segregated into either mpfr.h or mpfr_impl.h?  If the desire
is to keep them where they are, then the MSVC DLL branch will need to have a
modified mpfr_impl.h in addition to the modified mpfr.h to export those
functions into the DLL .

I'd like to stay as close to the main MPFR development by minimizing both
the number of edits and the number of files edited that are required to get
the MSVC DLL functionality.

Thanks for all of the work on the library.

Mike
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