Otherwise, if you really, really, need it.

[Ezze Tabi]

Just implement it yourself...

>I guess it was more from a convenience point of view since I was using
>mpz_t variables.  I think I could just re-write my code to just store
>the exponent value as an unsigned long and would be fine so I wouldn't
>need an extra mpz_get_ui() call.  The result of course would still
>need to be stored in mpz but not every variable.
 
Using the gmp C interface you should be able of implement the squaring method with easy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiating_by_squaring#Squaring_algorithm
etb
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