Changes from version 3.0.0 to version 3.0.1:
- Bug fixes (see <http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-3.0.0/#fixed> or ChangeLog file).
Note: The mpfr_subnormalize implementation up to MPFR 3.0.0 did not change
the flags. In particular, it did not follow the generic rule concerning
the inexact flag (and no special behavior was specified). The case of the
underflow flag was more a lack of specification.
Contributed by Stathis Kamperis on IRC.
Changes from versions 2.4.* to version 3.0.0:
- The "boudin aux pommes" release.
- MPFR 3.0.0 is binary incompatible with previous versions but (almost)
API compatible. More precisely the obsolete functions mpfr_random
and mpfr_random2 have been removed, the meaning of the return type
of the function mpfr_get_f has changed, and the return type of the
function mpfr_get_z is now int instead of void. In practice, this
should not break any existing code.
- MPFR is now distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License
version 3 or later (LGPL v3+).
- Rounding modes GMP_RNDx are now MPFR_RNDx (GMP_RNDx kept for
compatibility).
- A new rounding mode (MPFR_RNDA) is available to round away from zero.
- The rounding mode type is now mpfr_rnd_t (as in previous versions,
both mpfr_rnd_t and mp_rnd_t are accepted, but mp_rnd_t may be
removed in the future).
- The precision type is now mpfr_prec_t (as in previous versions, both
mpfr_prec_t and mp_prec_t are accepted, but mp_prec_t may be removed
in the future) and it is now signed (it was unsigned in MPFR 2.*, but
this was not documented). In practice, this change should not affect
existing code that assumed nothing on the precision type.
- MPFR now has its own exponent type mpfr_exp_t, which is currently
the same as GMP's mp_exp_t.
- Functions mpfr_random and mpfr_random2 have been removed.
- mpfr_get_f and mpfr_get_z now return a ternary value.
- mpfr_strtofr now accepts bases from 37 to 62.
- mpfr_custom_get_mantissa was renamed to mpfr_custom_get_significand
(mpfr_custom_get_mantissa is still available via a #define).
- Functions mpfr_get_si, mpfr_get_ui, mpfr_get_sj, mpfr_get_uj,
mpfr_get_z and mpfr_get_z_2exp no longer have cases with undefined
behavior; in these cases, the behavior is now specified, and in
particular, the erange flag is set.
- New functions mpfr_buildopt_tls_p and mpfr_buildopt_decimal_p giving
information about options used at MPFR build time.
- New function mpfr_regular_p.
- New function mpfr_set_zero.
- New function mpfr_digamma.
- New function mpfr_ai (incomplete, experimental).
- New functions mpfr_set_flt and mpfr_get_flt to convert from/to the
float type.
- New function mpfr_urandom.
- New function mpfr_set_z_2exp (companion to mpfr_get_z_2exp, which
was renamed from mpfr_get_z_exp in previous versions).
- Speed improvement for large operands in the trigonometric functions
(mpfr_sin, mpfr_cos, mpfr_tan, mpfr_sin_cos): speedup of about 2.5
for 10^5 digits, of about 5 for 10^6 digits.
- Speed improvement for large operands of the inverse trigonometric
functions (arcsin, arccos, arctan): about 2 for 10^3 digits, up to
2.7 for 10^6 digits.
- Some documentation files are installed in $docdir.
- The detection of a GMP build directory (more precisely, the internal
header files of GMP) was previously done separately from the use of
the --with-gmp-build configure option. This was not consistent with
the documentation and with other parts of the configure script. So,
as of MPFR 3.0.0, the internal header files of GMP are now used if
and only if the --with-gmp-build configure option is given.
- The configure script recognizes some extra "long double" formats
(double big endian, double little endian, double-double big endian).
- MPFR manual: added "API Compatibility" section.
- Test coverage: 97.1% lines of code.
- Bug fixes.
Changes from version 2.4.1 to version 2.4.2:
- Security fix in formatted output functions (buffer overflow).
- Formatted output functions: 6 is now the default value for
empty precision field with %Rf.
- Better portability of configure script.
- Detection of intmax_t and uintmax_t types.
- Improved documentation: mpfr_get_z_exp, mpfr_strtofr, mpfr_get_str and
formatted output functions.
- Improved message in case of assertion failure.
- Test coverage: 97.0% lines of code.
- Updated tcmp_ld test to really test the long double.
- Some documentation files are installed in $docdir.
- Removed mpfr_init_cache (unused and undocumented function).
- Fixed the way $CC / $CFLAGS are got from gmp.h (__GMP_CC / __GMP_CFLAGS).
- Bug fixes.
- Also note that GCC 4.4.0 (only this obsolete version) does not build
MPFR 2.4.2 correctly; this is detected by "make check" (failures in
tget_z and tpow_all).
changes:
-Behavior of mpfr_check_range changed
-Function mpfr_init_gmp_rand is no longer defined
-New functions
-Configure test for TLS support
-Get default $CC and $CFLAGS from gmp.h
-Security fix in mpfr_snprintf and mpfr_vsnprintf (buffer overflow)
-Configure: new checks for length modifiers hh and ll (new in C99)
-bugfixes
-documentation fixes
Changes from version 2.3.0 to version 2.3.1:
- Changes in the behavior of mpfr_strtofr and in its documentation
concerning particular cases where the code and the documentation
did not match.
- Bug fixes; see <http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.3.0/#bugs>.
- Configure test for TLS support.
- Improved MPFR manual.
