Behavior of mpf_eq near zero

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2015-04-13 13:12:07 +0200, Marc Glisse wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 
> >On 2015-04-13 11:58:15 +0200, Marc Glisse wrote:
> >>Doesn't the manual already say that the whole mpf is obsolete?
> >
> >No, it just seems to discourage its use *a little*:
> >
> >|    Note that the `mpf' functions are _not_ intended as a smooth
> >| extension to IEEE P754 arithmetic.  In particular results obtained on
> >| one computer often differ from the results on a computer with a
> >| different word size.
> >|
> >|    The GMP extension library MPFR (`http://mpfr.org') is an alternative
> >| to GMP's `mpf' functions.  MPFR provides well-defined precision and
> >| accurate rounding, and thereby naturally extends IEEE P754.
> 
> https://gmplib.org
> "New projects should strongly consider using the much more complete GMP
> extension library mpfr instead of mpf."

But this is not the GMP manual, which contains the official
documentation.

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