Changes between GMP version 4.2 and 4.2.1
Bugs:
* Shared library numbers corrected.
* Broken support for 32-bit AIX fixed.
* Misc minor fixes.
Speedups:
* Exact division (mpz_divexact) now falls back to plain division for large
operands.
Features:
* Support for some new systems.
Changes between GMP version 4.1.4 and 4.2
Bugs:
* Minor bug fixes and code generalizations.
* Expanded and improved test suite.
Speedups:
* Many minor optimizations, too many to mention here.
* Division now always subquadratic.
* Computation of n-factorial much faster.
* Added basic x86-64 assembly code.
* Floating-point output is now subquadratic for all bases.
* FFT multiply code now about 25% faster.
* Toom3 multiply code faster.
Features:
* Much improved configure.
* Workarounds for many more compiler bugs.
* Temporary allocations are now made on the stack only if small.
* New systems supported: HPPA-2.0 gcc, IA-64 HP-UX, PowerPC-64 Darwin,
Sparc64 GNU/Linux.
* New i386 fat binaries, selecting optimised code at runtime (--enable-fat).
* New build option: --enable-profiling=instrument.
* New memory function: mp_get_memory_functions.
* New Mersenne Twister random numbers: gmp_randinit_mt, also now used for
gmp_randinit_default.
* New random functions: gmp_randinit_set, gmp_urandomb_ui, gmp_urandomm_ui.
* New integer functions: mpz_combit, mpz_rootrem.
* gmp_printf etc new type "M" for mp_limb_t.
* gmp_scanf and friends now accept C99 hex floats.
* Numeric input and output can now be in bases up to 62.
* Comparisons mpz_cmp_d, mpz_cmpabs_d, mpf_cmp_d recognise infinities.
* Conversions mpz_get_d, mpq_get_d, mpf_get_d truncate towards zero,
previously their behaviour was unspecified.
* Fixes for overflow issues with operands >= 2^31 bits.
Caveats:
* mpfr is gone, and will from now on be released only separately. Please see
www.mpfr.org.
and add a new helper target and script, "show-buildlink3", that outputs
a listing of the buildlink3.mk files included as well as the depth at
which they are included.
For example, "make show-buildlink3" in fonts/Xft2 displays:
zlib
fontconfig
iconv
zlib
freetype2
expat
freetype2
Xrender
renderproto
RECOMMENDED is removed. It becomes ABI_DEPENDS.
BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED.foo becomes BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.foo.
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.foo becomes BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.foo.
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS does not change.
IGNORE_RECOMMENDED (which defaulted to "no") becomes USE_ABI_DEPENDS
which defaults to "yes".
Added to obsolete.mk checking for IGNORE_RECOMMENDED.
I did not manually go through and fix any aesthetic tab/spacing issues.
I have tested the above patch on DragonFly building and packaging
subversion and pkglint and their many dependencies.
I have also tested USE_ABI_DEPENDS=no on my NetBSD workstation (where I
have used IGNORE_RECOMMENDED for a long time). I have been an active user
of IGNORE_RECOMMENDED since it was available.
As suggested, I removed the documentation sentences suggesting bumping for
"security" issues.
As discussed on tech-pkg.
I will commit to revbump, pkglint, pkg_install, createbuildlink separately.
Note that if you use wip, it will fail! I will commit to pkgsrc-wip
later (within day).
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
* Bug fix to FFT multiplication code (crash for huge operands).
* Bug fix to mpf_sub (miscomputation).
* Support for powerpc64-gnu-linux.
* Better support for AMD64 in 32-bit mode.
* Upwardly binary compatible with 4.1.3, 4.1.2, 4.1.1, 4.1, 4.0.1, 4.0,
and 3.x versions.
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
All library names listed by *.la files no longer need to be listed
in the PLIST, e.g., instead of:
lib/libfoo.a
lib/libfoo.la
lib/libfoo.so
lib/libfoo.so.0
lib/libfoo.so.0.1
one simply needs:
lib/libfoo.la
and bsd.pkg.mk will automatically ensure that the additional library
names are listed in the installed package +CONTENTS file.
Also make LIBTOOLIZE_PLIST default to "yes".
the normal case when BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.<pkg> isn't specified, it receives
a value only once due to the multiple inclusion protection in the
bulldlink3.mk files. In the case where a package includes several
buildlink3.mk files that each want a slightly different version of another
dependency, having BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.<pkg> be a list allows for the
strictest <pkg> dependency to be matched.
* mpn/generic/rootrem.c: In Newton loop, pad qp with leading zero.
* mpn/generic/rootrem.c: Allocate 1.585 (log2(3)) times more space
for pp temporary to allow for worst case overestimate of root.
Add some asserts.
* tests/mpz/t-root.c: Generalize and speed up.
* mpfr/pow.c: Fixed bug (infinite loop) for exact powers.
* mpfr/sub.c: Fixed wrong inexact flag for a - b where a and b are of
different signs and EXP(a) < EXP(b).
* printf/printffuns.c (gmp_fprintf_reps): Make it actually work
for padding > 256.
* gmp-impl.h (USE_LEADING_REGPARM): Disable for PIC code generation.
* mpn/generic/tdiv_qr.c: Remove a bogus assert.
* mpn/generic/mode1o.c, mpn/alpha/ev5/mode1o.c: Correction to ASSERTs.
Reported by Christoph Ludwig.
* mpf/urandomb.c: Truncate nbits to precision of rop.
* configure.in (sparc v9 *bsd*): Add NetBSD and OpenBSD sparc64.
(x86 openbsd*): Extra underscore for _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_.
* mpn/generic/rootrem.c: Avoid overflow in xnb calculation.
* mpz/root.c: Avoid overflow in rootnb calculation.
* gmpxx.h (__gmp_binary_equal, __gmp_binary_not_equal): Fix broken
mpq/double functions.
* mpn/m68k/lshift.asm: Fix typo in !scale_available_p code.
* mpn/m68k/rshift.asm: Likewise.
* mpz/remove.c: Make src==0 return 0, not do DIVIDE_BY_ZERO.
* mpfr/acinclude.m4 (MPFR_CONFIGS): Patch by Vincent for an apparent
float rounding gremlin on powerpc.
* mpf/inp_str.c: Fix returned count of chars read, reported by Paul
Zimmermann. Also fix a memory leak for invalid input.
* mpfr/set_q.c: Allow for 1 bit numerator or denominator.
* Bug fixes.
* Speed improvements.
* Upwardly binary compatible with 4.0, 4.0.1, and 3.x versions.
* Asymptotically fast conversion to/from strings (mpz, mpq, mpn levels), but
also major speed improvements for tiny operands.
* mpn_get_str parameter restrictions relaxed.
* Major speed improvments for HPPA 2.0 systems.
* Major speed improvments for UltraSPARC systems.
* Major speed improvments for IA-64 systems (but still sub-optimal code).
* Extended test suite.
* mpfr is back, with many bug fixes and portability improvements.
* New function: mpz_ui_sub.
* New functions: mpz_export, mpz_import.
* Optimization for nth root functions (mpz_root, mpz_perfect_power_p).
* Optimization for extended gcd (mpz_gcdext, mpz_invert, mpn_gcdext).
* Generalized low-level number format, reserving a `nails' part of each
limb. (Please note that this is really experimental; some functions
are likely to compute garbage when nails are enabled.)
* Nails-enabled Alpha 21264 assembly code, allowing up to 75% better
performance. (Use --enable-nails=4 to enable it.)
