GMP 4.0 released

[Torbjorn Granlund]

The GMP 4.0 release has been waiting the last four days for the FSF
sysadmins to upload the tar file.  It is unfortunate that this old
problem with long uploading delays still seems unresolved.

I have therefore put the GMP 4.0 relase on another well-connected ftp
server: <ftp://multivac.fatburen.org/pub/gmp/>

MD5 (gmp-4.0.tar.bz2) = 546d9ef5b4126d3bcc2483f604599db0
MD5 (gmp-4.0.tar.gz) = 3ba8fbc5a367b0689320e3477513702c

Please don NOT download both the files; they unpack to the exact same
tar file.

The original release announcement is atteched.  Note that the release
at the time of writing is NOT yet available from the URL below.

You should verify the MD5 sums from <http://swox.com/gmp/>, since you
have no good reasons for trusting multivac.fatburen.org, nor the
authenticity of this email!

-- 
Torbjörn


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Version 4.0 of the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) has
been released.  This is a major release, with important new features,
speed improvements, and bug fixes,

The source code is available from

        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-4.0.tar.gz

and many mirrors (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for a full list
of mirrors).  The GMP home page is found at:

        http://swox.com/gmp/

Please send bug reports and comments to address@hidden

GMP 4.0 was finished and released by Torbjörn Granlund and Kevin Ryde.
For a complete list of contributors, please see gmp.texi in the
distribution.

Changes between MP version 3.1.1 and 4.0:

* Bug fixes.
* Speed improvements.
* Upwardly binary compatible with 3.x versions.
* New CPU support: IA-64, Pentium 4.
* Improved CPU support: 21264, Cray vector systems.
* Support for all MIPS ABIs: o32, n32, 64.
* New systems supported: Darwin, SCO, Windows DLLs.
* New divide-and-conquer square root algorithm.
* New algorithms chapter in the manual.
* New malloc reentrant temporary memory method.
* New C++ class interface by Gerardo Ballabio (beta).
* Revamped configure, featuring ABI selection.
* Speed improvements for mpz_powm and mpz_powm_ui (mainly affecting small
  operands).
* mpz_perfect_power_p now properly recognizes 0, 1, and negative perfect
  powers.
* mpz_hamdist now supports negative operands.
* mpz_jacobi now accepts non-positive denominators.
* mpz_powm now supports negative exponents.
* mpn_mul_1 operand overlap requirements relaxed.
* Float input and output uses locale specific decimal point where available.
* New gmp_printf, gmp_scanf and related functions.
* New division functions: mpz_cdiv_q_2exp, mpz_cdiv_r_2exp, mpz_divexact_ui.
* New divisibility tests: mpz_divisible_p, mpz_divisible_ui_p,
  mpz_divisible_2exp_p, mpz_congruent_p, mpz_congruent_ui_p,
  mpz_congruent_2exp_p.
* New Fibonacci function: mpz_fib2_ui.
* New Lucas number functions: mpz_lucnum_ui, mpz_lucnum2_ui.
* Other new integer functions: mpz_cmp_d, mpz_cmpabs_d, mpz_get_d_2exp,
  mpz_init2, mpz_kronecker, mpz_lcm_ui, mpz_realloc2.
* New rational I/O: mpq_get_str, mpq_inp_str, mpq_out_str, mpq_set_str.
* Other new rational functions: mpq_abs, mpq_cmp_si, mpq_div_2exp,
  mpq_mul_2exp, mpq_set_f.
* New float tests: mpf_integer_p, mpf_fits_sint_p, mpf_fits_slong_p,
  mpf_fits_sshort_p, mpf_fits_uint_p, mpf_fits_ulong_p, mpf_fits_ushort_p.
* Other new float functions: mpf_cmp_d, mpf_get_default_prec, mpf_get_si,
  mpf_get_ui, mpf_get_d_2exp.
* New random functions: gmp_randinit_default, gmp_randinit_lc_2exp_size.
* New demo expression string parser (see demos/expr).
* New preliminary perl interface (see demos/perl).
* Tuned algorithm thresholds for many more CPUs.