rop?

[Blake Huff]

Daniel:

As near as I can tell, "rop" means "returned operand."    In the  
example below, after you call mpf_pow_ui,   rop = op1^op2.

Blake


On Jan 15, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Daniel J Farrell wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm a little curious about the 'rop' the keeps appearing in all the
> fuction definitions. There is alway advice in to what to set it do
> but after searching the gmp manual I could find anything that
> explains it?
>
> For example the floating point power function.
>
> void mpf_pow_ui (mpf_t rop, mpf_t op1, unsigned long int op2 )
> Set rop to op1 op2 .
>
> Regards, Daniel.
>
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Blake Huff
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