Announce: GNU MPFR 2.4.2 is released

[Vincent Lefevre]

GNU MPFR 2.4.2 ("andouillette sauce moutarde", patch level 2) is now
available for download from the MPFR web site:

  http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.4.2/

It will also be uploaded to INRIAGforge and to ftp.gnu.org in the
next few hours.

Thanks very much to those who sent us bug reports and/or tested
the release candidates.

The MD5's:
89e59fe665e2b3ad44a6789f40b059a0  mpfr-2.4.2.tar.bz2
0e3dcf9fe2b6656ed417c89aa9159428  mpfr-2.4.2.tar.gz
f61da10945c3de6962749a5eb70dafd3  mpfr-2.4.2.tar.xz
a21eab985b5f67064295b024072a380c  mpfr-2.4.2.zip

Changes from version 2.4.1 to version 2.4.2:
- Security fix in formatted output functions (buffer overflow).
- Formatted output functions: 6 is now the default value for
  empty precision field with %Rf.
- Better portability of configure script.
- Detection of intmax_t and uintmax_t types.
- Improved documentation: mpfr_get_z_exp, mpfr_strtofr, mpfr_get_str and
  formatted output functions.
- Improved message in case of assertion failure.
- Test coverage: 97.0% lines of code.
- Updated tcmp_ld test to really test the long double.
- Some documentation files are installed in $docdir.
- Removed mpfr_init_cache (unused and undocumented function).
- Fixed the way $CC / $CFLAGS are got from gmp.h (__GMP_CC / __GMP_CFLAGS).
- Bug fixes.
- Also note that GCC 4.4.0 (only this obsolete version) does not build
  MPFR 2.4.2 correctly; this is detected by "make check" (failures in
  tget_z and tpow_all).

You can send success and failure reports to <mpfr at loria.fr>, and give
us the canonical system name (by running the "./config.guess" script),
the processor and the compiler version, in order to complete the
"Platforms Known to Support MPFR" section of the MPFR 2.4.2 web page.

Regards,

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