Changes between GMP version 6.0.* and 6.1.0
BUGS FIXED
* The public function mpn_com is now correctly declared in gmp.h.
* Healed possible failures of mpn_sec_sqr for non-cryptographic sizes for
some obsolete CPUs.
* The option --disable-assembly now disables all inlined asm.
* Fixed bug affecting mini-gmp's bitwise functions mpz_setbit, mpz_clrbit,
and mpz_combit.
* Various problems related to precision for mpf have been fixed.
* Fixed ABI incompatible stack alignment in calls from assembly code.
* Fixed PIC bug in popcount affecting Intel processors using the 32-bit ABI.
SPEEDUPS
* Speedup for Intel Broadwell and Skylake though assembly code making use of
new ADX instructions.
* Square root is now faster when the remainder is not needed. Also the speed
to compute the k-th root improved, for small sizes.
* Improved arm64 support.
FEATURES
* New C++ functions gcd and lcm for mpz_class.
* New public mpn functions mpn_divexact_1, mpn_zero_p, and mpn_cnd_swap.
* New public mpq_cmp_z function, to efficiently compare rationals with
integers.
* Support for Darwin in all x86 code, thereby enabling fat builds on Darwin.
* Support for more 32-bit arm processors.
* Support for compilation with clang/llvm on more platforms. Caution: GMP
triggers mis-compilation bugs in clang for many platforms, such as arm, x86
(32-bit and 64-bit), powerpc, mips.
* Support for AVX-less modern x86 CPUs. (Such support might be missing either
because the CPU vendor chose to disable AVX, or because the running kernel
lacks AVX context switch support.)
* Stack usage trimmed; we believe 512 KiB is now sufficient for any GMP
call, irrespective of operand size.
* Support for NetBSD under Xen; we switch off AVX unconditionally under
NetBSD since a bug in NetBSD makes AVX fail under Xen.
MISC
* We now use manufacturers' code names for x86 CPUs, e.g., "haswell" instead
of names derived from the commercial brands.
* Small improvements and better coverage for the test suite.
* The various FreeBSD problems listed for 6.0.0 affect this release too.
* Tuned values for FFT multiplications are provided for larger number on
many platforms.
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