two questions on GMP & C float

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2009-05-16 17:53:00 +0200, Marc Glisse wrote:
> Compared to (mpz,int) (and mpf), I think mpfr has alloc==size (this could 
> be changed in a compatible way (except for a couple macros that expose 
> too much internals), or allocated storage could be truncated (if  
> mpfr_free_func ignores size), so I may be mistaken), which makes a lot of 
> sense for fixed precision arithmetic, but may be a bit less convenient  
> here (I don't really know, it may not matter so much).

What do you mean by alloc==size?

Note that currently, when you reduce the precision of a mpfr_t,
the allocated size remains the same (see the MPFR source for more
information).

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