Re: CLN, GMP inputs

[Hans Aberg]

At 10:54 +1000 2001/05/03, Kevin Ryde wrote:
>> If I should sum the above up seen from the perspective of GMP development,
>> then what one wants is that all the stuff relating to the dynamic behavior
>> of the __mpz_struct and __mpf_struct ending up in the memory allocation, so
>> that one can avoid having to do another such memory allocation.
>
>I'd recommend making other arrangements to setup the mpz_t parts, if
>that seems to be a problem.  I'm afraid the need for upward binary
>compatibility will prevent any radical changes.

GMP already comes with the experimental mpfr. One possibility is to
continue mpf as it is, and then successively work up mpfr to something more
radically different.

  Hans Aberg