Changes since previous package:
2009-06-30, version 1.3.0
* Use the GNU autotools as build system.
* Implemented a more portable module dependency mechanism.
2008-04-05, version 1.2.2
* Re-establish CLN-1.2.0 ABI and fix ARM build, both inadvertently broken in
the previous release.
2008-03-24, version 1.2.1
* Fixed some bugs in the output of numbers larger than 2^32 decimal digits.
* Modifying C/C++ operators like +=, ++, etc. are now enabled by default.
2008-01-19, version 1.2.0
* Save big amounts of memory in computation of some functions and constants by:
- Avoiding pre-computation of series terms and instead computing them in a
streamed way.
- Avoiding computation with excess precision in binary splitting algorithm
by coercion of intermediate integer values to floating-point as early as
possible.
* Added support for huge numbers:
- intC used for all counter loops.
- intE is now a 64-bit type on all 64-bit platforms and even on selected
32-bit platforms.
* CLN now uses C++ exceptions for error handling. The cl_abort() hook is not
supported any more. Please refer to the documentation to learn about existing
exception types.
* Fixed a bug on i386 where comparing Z/2Z ring zeros returnd random results.
* Removed cl_boolean. Use built-in C++ bool instead.
* Dropped the cln-config script. Please use pkg-config instead.
* Updated infrastructure to that of libtool-1.5.24.
* Changed encoding of all files to UTF-8.
* Fix compilation issues with GCC-4.3.
* Fix linking issues on platforms that don't feature weak symbols (like win32).
* Compilation fixes for 64-bit brokenness introduced in last release.
Changes 1.1.12:
* Fix rare assertion when printing quite large floats.
* Compilation fixes for several platforms: *BSD, Intel Mac, and MinGW.
Algorithmic changes
* Input of numbers in bases 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 is now done in linear bit
complexity as opposed to O(N^2). Useful for all kinds of persistency.
Implementation changes
* Fixed several bugs in the integer input and output routines that could be
blamed for random crashes in the following cases: output in base 32 for
quite large numbers, input in base 2 for fixnums and input in base 3 for
fixnums on a 64 bit target.
* Fixed crash when radix specifiers were used in input streams.
* Speed up on x86_64 and ia64 by adding some inline assembly.
Other changes
* Fixes for compilation on MacOS X and little endian Mips.
features:
* Rich set of number classes
* Elementary, logical, transcendental functions
* C++ as implementation language brings efficiency, type safety,
and algebraic syntax
* Memory efficiency
* Speed efficiency
* Interoperability
