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-Copyright 1996, 1999-2016, 2018-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
-Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any
-medium, provided this notice is preserved.
-
-Changes between GMP version 6.2.0 and 6.2.1
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * A possible overflow of type int is avoided for mpz_cmp on huge operands.
-
- * Overflows are more carefully detected and reported for mpz_pow_ui.
-
- * A bug in longlong.h for aarch64 sub_ddmmss, not affecting GMP, was healed.
-
- * mini-gmp: mpz_out_str and mpq_out_str now correctly handle out of
- range bases.
-
- FEATURES
- * C90 compliance.
-
- * Initial support for Darwin on arm64, and improved portability.
-
- * Support for more processors.
-
- SPEEDUPS
- * None, except indirectly through recognition of new CPUs.
-
- MISC
- * None.
-
-Changes between GMP version 6.1.* and 6.2.0
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * gmp_snprintf now correctly reports an error (returns -1) when snprintf
- does.
-
- * Conversion to double is now more robust even if the configuration process
- does not recognize the float format.
-
- * mpz_powm could return a not completely normalised value, when the
- exponent was 1 and the base < 0.
-
- * mpf_set_str could create invalid mpf_t variables for input strings with
- many leading zeros.
-
- FEATURES
- * New C++ functions factorial, primorial and fibonacci for mpz_class.
-
- * Functions to detect primality now substitute the first 24 Miller-Rabin
- iterations with the BPSW test.
-
- * Mini-GMP: new functions mpz_2fac_ui and mpz_mfac_uiui.
-
- * Mini-GMP: mpz_sizeinbase, mpz_get_str, and mpz_set_str now support bases up
- to 62.
-
- * Mini-GMP: added support for the mpq_t layer.
-
- * MIPS r6 cores are now supported.
-
- SPEEDUPS
- * Major speedup for AMD Ryzen and Epyc thanks to an extensive set of assembly
- code.
-
- * Major speedup for IBM POWER9 thanks to assembly code making use of new madd
- instruction.
-
- * Speedup for 64-bit ARM CPUs thanks to new/improved assembly code.
-
- * The n-over-k function mpz_bin_ui has been reimplemented for great speedups
- for large operands.
-
- * Speedup for the worst case of mpz_perfect_power_p.
-
- * Speedup for gcd for small and medium size operands.
-
- * Speedup for really huge multiplies thanks to much larger FFT tables.
-
- MISC
- * Internal representation of the mpz_t variables now supports lazy
- allocation; memory is allocated only when a value is stored.
-
- * Small improvements and better coverage for the test suite.
-
- * The tune/speed program can measure some more functions.
-
- * The low-level function mpn_mul no longer diverts to mpn_sqr, users should
- call mpn_sqr directly when applicable.
-
- * New installed files gmp.pc and gmpxx.pc, for use with pkg-config.
- Contributed by Hugh McMaster.
-
-Changes between GMP version 6.1.1 and 6.1.2
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * Mini-GMP: Fixed a division bug, which on a machine with 64-bit
- unsigned long affects approximately 1 out of 2^32 divisors.
-
- * Mini-GMP: Fix mpz_set_str crash on inputs with a large number of
- leading zeros. Also stricter input validation, rejecting inputs
- with no digits.
-
- FEATURES
- * Handle more systems which require PIC code in static libraries (e.g.,
- "hardened" Gentoo and Debian 9).
-
- * Configuration for arm (-32 and -64) has been rewritten, fixing poor
- code selection for many CPUs.
-
- * Mini-GMP: Updated to the latest development version, including
- new functions mpn_com and mpn_neg.
-
- SPEEDUPS
- * None, except for arm CPUs affected by the configuration rewrite.
-
- MISC
- -
-
-Changes between GMP version 6.1.0 and 6.1.1
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * Make Intel Broadwell configurations work on Windows.
-
- FEATURES
- * Work around faulty cpuid on some recent Intel chips (this allows GMP to run
- on Skylake Pentiums).
-
- * Support thumb-less ARM chips.
-
-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 through 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.
-
-Changes between GMP version 5.1.* and 6.0.0
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * The function mpz_invert now considers any number invertible in Z/1Z.
-
- * The mpn multiply code now handles operands of more than 2^31 limbs
- correctly. (Note however that the mpz code is limited to 2^32 bits on
- 32-bit hosts and 2^37 bits on 64-bit hosts.)
-
- * Contains all fixes from release 5.1.3.
-
- SPEEDUPS
- * Plain division of large operands is faster and more monotonous in operand
- size.
-
- * Major speedup for ARM, in particular ARM Cortex-A15, thanks to improved
- assembly.
-
- * Major speedup for SPARC T4/T5 and speedup also for T3, thanks to a lot of
- new assembly.
-
- * Speedup for Intel Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, thanks to rewritten
- and vastly expanded assembly support. Speedup also for the older Core 2
- and Nehalem.
-
- * Faster mixed arithmetic between mpq_class and double.
-
- * With g++, optimise more operations when one argument is a simple constant.
-
- FEATURES
- * Support for new Intel and AMD CPUs.
-
- * Support for ARM64 alias Aarch64 alias ARMv8.
-
- * New public functions mpn_sec_mul and mpn_sec_sqr, implementing side-channel
- silent multiplication and squaring.
-
- * New public functions mpn_sec_div_qr and mpn_sec_div_r, implementing
- side-channel silent division.
-
- * New public functions mpn_cnd_add_n and mpn_cnd_sub_n. Side-channel silent
- conditional addition and subtraction.
-
- * New public function mpn_sec_powm, implementing side-channel silent modexp.
-
- * New public function mpn_sec_invert, implementing side-channel silent
- modular inversion.
-
- * Better support for applications which use the mpz_t type, but nevertheless
- need to call some of the lower-level mpn functions. See the documentation
- for mpz_limbs_read and related functions.
-
- MISC
- * This release will not work on NetBSD 5.x, FreeBSD 7.x, 8.x or 9 series
- before 9.3. The reason is that the m4 command is not correctly
- implemented. (Workaround: Use an older GMP release, or install GNU m4 from
- /usr/ports and tell GMP to use it.)
-
- * This release will not build properly on FreeBSD/amd64 before version 10
- using the 32-bit ABI (once a working m4 is installed). The reason is
- broken limits.h. (Workaround: Use an older GMP release if using the 32-bit
- ABI on these FreeBSD releases is important.)
-
- * This release will not work reliably on FreeBSD 10.0 for i386 or amd64 using
- the 32-bit ABI. The reason is bugs in the compiler 'clang'. Depending on
- CPU-dependent compiler flags, GMP may or may not be miscompiled in a
- particular build. (Workaround: Compiling gcc from /usr/ports should work,
- except that gcc circularly depends on GMP; we have not been able to test
- that workaround due to FreeBSD 10.0 bugs affecting its ability to run under
- KVM and Xen.)
-
- * This release will not compile on FreeBSD before version 10 for i386,
- targeting any modern AMD processor. The reason is bugs in the old gcc
- bundled with FreeBSD. (Workaround: install a less obsolete gcc from
- /usr/ports and tell GMP to use it, or override the -march=amdfam10
- GMP configure command line argument.)
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 5.1.2 and 5.1.3
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * The internal functions mpn_sbpi1_div_qr_sec mpn_sbpi1_div_r_sec could
- compute garbage with a low probability. They are now rewritten, and the
- test code has been improved.
-
- * A bug in the ia64 implementation of mpn_divrem_2, clobbering some
- callee-save registers, has been fixed. This is an internal
- function, with the bug manifesting itself as miscomputation in,
- e.g., mpn_sqrtrem.
-
- * The documentation now correctly says 'const' for input arguments.
-
- SPEEDUPS
- * None.
-
- FEATURES
- * None.
-
- MISC
- * None.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 5.1.1 and 5.1.2
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * A bug in mpz_powm_ui triggered by base arguments of at least 15000 decimal
- digits or mod arguments of at least 7500 decimal digits has been fixed.
-
- * An AMD Bulldozer specific bug affecting the 64-bit Windows ABI has been
- fixed. This bug was in a key function (mpn_mul_1) and made both Bulldozer
- specific builds and fat builds run on Bulldozer completely non-functional.
-
- SPEEDUPS
- * None.
-
- FEATURES
- * None.
-
- MISC
- * Fixes and generalisations to the test suite.
-
- * Minor portability enhancements.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 5.1.0 and 5.1.1
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * On Windows 64-bit, an error causing link errors about
- __gmp_binvert_limb_table has been fixed.
-
- * Aarch64 alias ARM64 support now works.
-
- * A possible buffer overrun in mpz_ior has been fixed.
-
- * A rare sign flip in mpz_remove has been fixed.
-
- * A bug causing problems with mpf numbers with absolute value >= 2^31 has
- been fixed.
-
- * Several bugs in mini-gmp have been fixed.
-
- * A bug caused by automake, related to the 'distcheck' target, has been fixed
- by upgrading the automake used for GMP release engineering.
-
- SPEEDUPS
- * None.
-
- FEATURES
- * Preliminary support for the x32 ABI under x86-64.
-
- MISC
- * The mini-gmp testsuite now tests the entire set of functions.
-
- * Various improvements of the GMP testsuite.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 5.0.* and 5.1.0
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * When reading a C++ number (like mpz_class) in an istream reaches the end
- of the stream, the eofbit is now set.
-
- * The result sign of mpz_rootrem's remainder is now always correct.
-
- * The mpz_remove function now handles negative divisors.
-
- * Contains all fixes from release 5.0.5.
-
- SPEEDUPS
- * The n-factorial and n-over-k functions have been reimplemented for great
- speedups for small and large operands.
-
- * New subquadratic algorithm for the Kronecker/Jacobi/Legendre symbol.
-
- * Major speedup for ARM, in particular ARM Cortex-A9 and A15, thanks to broad
- assembly support.
-
- * Significant speedup for POWER6 and POWER7 thanks to improved assembly.
-
- * The performance under M$ Windows' 64-bit ABI has been greatly improved
- thanks to complete assembly support.
-
- * Minor speed improvements of many functions and for many platforms.
-
- FEATURES
- * Many new CPUs recognised.
-
- * New functions for multi-factorials, and primorial: mpz_2fac_ui,
- mpz_mfac_uiui and mpz_primorial_ui.
-
- * The mpz_powm_sec function now uses side-channel silent division for
- converting into Montgomery residues.
-
- * The fat binary mechanism is now more robust in its CPU recognition.
-
- MISC
- * Inclusion of assembly code is now controlled by the configure options
- --enable-assembly and --disable-assembly. The "none" CPU target is gone.
-
- * In C++, the conversions mpq_class->mpz_class, mpf_class->mpz_class and
- mpf_class->mpq_class are now explicit.
-
- * Includes "mini-gmp", a small, portable, but less efficient, implementation
- of a subset of GMP's mpn and mpz interfaces. Used in GMP bootstrap, but it
- can also be bundled with applications as a fallback when the real GMP
- library is unavailable.
-
- * The ABIs under AIX are no longer called aix32 and aix64, but mode64 and 32.
- This is more consistent with other powerpc systems.
-
- * The coverage of the testsuite has been improved, using the lcov tool. See
- also https://gmplib.org/devel/lcov/.
-
- * It is now possible to compile GMP using a C++ compiler.
-
- * K&R C compilers are no longer supported.
-
- * The BSD MP compatibility functions have been removed.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 5.0.4 and 5.0.5
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * A bug causing AMD 11h processors to be treated like AMD 10h has been fixed.
- The 11h processors do not correctly handle all 10h (aka K10) instructions,
- and GMP's use of these instructions results in major miscomputations (not
- as one would have hoped CPU traps of some 'illegal instruction' sort).
-
- * A bug affecting recent Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs resulting in configuration
- failures has been fixed.
-
- SPEEDUPS
- * None.
-
- FEATURES
- * A couple of tests added to the self-check suite.
-
- MISC
- * None.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 5.0.3 and 5.0.4
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * Thresholds in mpn_powm_sec for both fat and non-fat builds are now used
- safely, plugging a one-word buffer overrun introduced in the 5.0.3 release
- (for non-fat) and a multi-word buffer overrun that existed since 5.0 (for
- fat). (We have not been able to provoke malign stack smashing in any of
- the ~100 configurations explored by the GMP nightly builds, but the bug
- should be assumed to be exploitable.)
-
- * Two bugs in multiplication code causing incorrect computation with
- extremely low probability have been fixed.
-
- * A bug in the test suite causing buffer overruns during "make check",
- sometimes leading to subsequent malloc crashes, has been fixed.
-
- * Two bugs in the gcd code have been fixed. They could lead to incorrect
- results, but for uniformly distributed random operands, the likelihood for
- that is infinitesimally small. (There was also a third bug, but that was
- an incorrect ASSERT, which furthermore was not enabled by default.)
-
- * A bug affecting 32-bit PowerPC division has been fixed. The bug caused
- miscomputation for certain divisors in the range 2^32 ... 2^64-1 (about 1
- in 2^30 of these).
-
- SPEEDUPS
- * None, except indirectly through recognition of new CPUs, and through better
- tuning parameters.
-
- FEATURES
- * Some more tests added to the self-check suite.
-
- * The AMD "Bulldozer" CPU is now recognised.
-
- MISC
- * None.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 5.0.2 and 5.0.3
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * A few minor bugs related to portability fixed.
-
- * A slight timing leak of the powm_sec functions have been sealed. (This
- leak could possibly be used to extract the most significant few bits of the
- exponent. "Few" here means at most 10.)
-
- * The mpz_nextprime function now runs a safer number of pseudo-random prime
- tests.
-
- * A bug in division code possibly causing incorrect computation was fixed.
-
- SPEEDUPS
- * None, except indirectly through recognition of new CPUs, and through better
- tuning parameters.
-
- FEATURES
- * New CPUs recognised.
-
- * IBM S/390 are now supported in both 31/32-bit and 64-bit mode. (We have
- not been able to fully test this on any multilib machine, since IBM expired
- our guest account a few days before our release.)
-
- MISC
- * None.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 5.0.1 and 5.0.2
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * Many minor bugs related to portability fixed.
-
- * The support for HPPA 2.0N now works, after an assembly bug fix.
-
- * A test case type error has been fixed. The symptom of this bug was
- spurious 'make check' failures.
-
- SPEEDUPS
- * None, except indirectly through recognition of new CPUs.
-
- FEATURES
- * Fat builds are now supported for 64-bit x86 processors also under Darwin.
-
- MISC
- * None.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 5.0.0 and 5.0.1
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * Fat builds fixed.
-
- * Fixed crash for huge multiplies when old FFT_TABLE2 type of parameter
- selection tables' sentinel was smaller than multiplied operands.
-
- * The solib numbers now reflect the removal of the documented but preliminary
- mpn_bdivmod function; we correctly flag incompatibility with GMP 4.3. GMP
- 5.0.0 has this wrong, and should perhaps be uninstalled to avoid confusion.
-
- SPEEDUPS
- * Multiplication of large numbers has indirectly been sped up through better
- FFT tuning and processor recognition. Since many operations depend on
- multiplication, there will be a general speedup.
-
- FEATURES
- * More Core i3, i5 an Core i7 processor models are recognised.
-
- * Fixes and workarounds for Mac OS quirks should make this GMP version build
- using many of the different versions of "Xcode".
-
- MISC
- * The amount of scratch memory needed for multiplication of huge numbers has
- been reduced substantially (but is still larger than in GMP 4.3.)
-
- * Likewise, the amount of scratch memory needed for division of large numbers
- has been reduced substantially.
-
- * The FFT tuning code of tune/tuneup.c has been completely rewritten, and
- new, large FFT parameter selection tables are provided for many machines.
-
- * Upgraded to the latest autoconf, automake, libtool.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 4.3.X and 5.0.0
-
- BUGS FIXED
- * None (contains the same fixes as release 4.3.2).
-
- SPEEDUPS
- * Multiplication has been overhauled:
- (1) Multiplication of larger same size operands has been improved with
- the addition of two new Toom functions and a new internal function
- mpn_mulmod_bnm1 (computing U * V mod (B^n-1), B being the word base.
- This latter function is used for the largest products, waiting for a
- better Schoenhage-Strassen U * V mod (B^n+1) implementation.
- (2) Likewise for squaring.
- (3) Multiplication of different size operands has been improved with the
- addition of many new Toom function, and by selecting underlying
- functions better from the main multiply functions.
-
- * Division and mod have been overhauled:
- (1) Plain "schoolbook" division is reimplemented using faster quotient
- approximation.
- (2) Division Q = N/D, R = N mod D where both the quotient and remainder
- are needed now runs in time O(M(log(N))). This is an improvement of
- a factor log(log(N))
- (3) Division where just the quotient is needed is now O(M(log(Q))) on
- average.
- (4) Modulo operations using Montgomery REDC form now take time O(M(n)).
- (5) Exact division Q = N/D by means of mpz_divexact has been improved
- for all sizes, and now runs in time O(M(log(N))).
-
- * The function mpz_powm is now faster for all sizes. Its complexity has
- gone from O(M(n)log(n)m) to O(M(n)m) where n is the size of the modulo
- argument and m is the size of the exponent. It is also radically
- faster for even modulus, since it now partially factors such modulus
- and performs two smaller modexp operations, then uses CRT.
-
- * The internal support for multiplication yielding just the lower n limbs
- has been improved by using Mulders' algorithm.
-
- * Computation of inverses, both plain 1/N and 1/N mod B^n have been
- improved by using well-tuned Newton iterations, and wrap-around
- multiplication using mpn_mulmod_bnm1.
-
- * A new algorithm makes mpz_perfect_power_p asymptotically faster.
-
- * The function mpz_remove uses a much faster algorithm, is better tuned,
- and also benefits from the division improvements.
-
- * Intel Atom and VIA Nano specific optimisations.
-
- * Plus hundreds of smaller improvements and tweaks!
-
- FEATURES
- * New mpz function: mpz_powm_sec for side-channel quiet modexp
- computations.
-
- * New mpn functions: mpn_sqr, mpn_and_n, mpn_ior_n, mpn_xor_n, mpn_nand_n,
- mpn_nior_n, mpn_xnor_n, mpn_andn_n, mpn_iorn_n, mpn_com, mpn_neg,
- mpn_copyi, mpn_copyd, mpn_zero.
-
- * The function mpn_tdiv_qr now allows certain argument overlap.
-
- * Support for fat binaries for 64-bit x86 processors has been added.
-
- * A new type, mp_bitcnt_t for bignum bit counts, has been introduced.
-
- * Support for Windows64 through mingw64 has been added.
-
- * The cofactors of mpz_gcdext and mpn_gcdext are now more strictly
- normalised, returning to how GMP 4.2 worked. (Note that also release
- 4.3.2 has this change.)
-
- MISC
- * The mpn_mul function should no longer be used for squaring,
- instead use the new mpn_sqr.
-
- * The algorithm selection has been improved, the number of thresholds have
- more than doubled, and the tuning and use of existing thresholds have
- been improved.
-
- * The tune/speed program can measure many of new functions.
-
- * The mpn_bdivmod function has been removed. We do not consider this an
- incompatible change, since the function was marked as preliminary.
-
- * The testsuite has been enhanced in various ways.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 4.3.1 and 4.3.2
-
- Bugs:
- * Fixed bug in mpf_eq.
- * Fixed overflow issues in mpz_set_str, mpz_inp_str, mpf_set_str, and
- mpf_get_str.
- * Avoid unbounded stack allocation for unbalanced multiplication.
- * Fixed bug in FFT multiplication.
-
- Speedups:
- * None, except that proper processor recognition helps affected processors.
-
- Features:
- * Recognise more "Core 2" processor variants.
- * The cofactors of mpz_gcdext and mpn_gcdext are now more strictly
- normalised, returning to how GMP 4.2 worked.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 4.3.0 and 4.3.1
-
- Bugs:
- * Fixed bug in mpn_gcdext, affecting also mpz_gcdext and mpz_invert.
- The bug could cause a cofactor to have a leading zero limb, which
- could lead to crashes or miscomputation later on.
- * Fixed some minor documentation issues.
-
- Speedups:
- * None.
-
- Features:
- * Workarounds for various issues with Mac OS X's build tools.
- * Recognise more IBM "POWER" processor variants.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 4.2.X and 4.3.0
-
- Bugs:
- * Fixed bug in mpz_perfect_power_p with recognition of negative perfect
- powers that can be written both as an even and odd power.
- * We might accidentally have added bugs since there is a large amount of
- new code in this release.
-
- Speedups:
- * Vastly improved assembly code for x86-64 processors from AMD and Intel.
- * Major improvements also for many other processor families, such as
- Alpha, PowerPC, and Itanium.
- * New sub-quadratic mpn_gcd and mpn_gcdext, as well as improved basecase
- gcd code.
- * The multiply FFT code has been slightly improved.
- * Balanced multiplication now uses 4-way Toom in addition to schoolbook,
- Karatsuba, 3-way Toom, and FFT.
- * Unbalanced multiplication has been vastly improved.
- * Improved schoolbook division by means of faster quotient approximation.
- * Several new algorithms for division and mod by single limbs, giving
- many-fold speedups.
- * Improved nth root computations.
- * The mpz_nextprime function uses sieving and is much faster.
- * Countless minor tweaks.
-
- Features:
- * Updated support for fat binaries for x86_32 include current processors
- * Lots of new mpn internal interfaces. Some of them will become public
- in a future GMP release.
- * Support for the 32-bit ABI under x86-apple-darwin.
- * x86 CPU recognition code should now default better for future
- processors.
- * The experimental nails feature does not work in this release, but
- it might be re-enabled in the future.
-
- Misc:
- * The gmp_version variable now always contains three parts. For this
- release, it is "4.3.0".
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 4.2.3 and 4.2.4
-
- Bugs:
- * Fix bug with parsing exponent '+' sign in mpf.
- * Fix an allocation bug in mpf_set_str, also affecting mpf_init_set_str, and
- mpf_inp_str.
-
- Speedups:
- * None, except that proper processor recognition helps affected processors.
-
- Features:
- * Recognize new AMD processors.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 4.2.2 and 4.2.3
-
- Bugs:
- * Fix x86 CPU recognition code to properly identify recent AMD and Intel
- 64-bit processors.
- * The >> operator of the C++ wrapper gmpxx.h now does floor rounding, not
- truncation.
- * Inline semantics now follow the C99 standard, and works with recent GCC
- releases.
- * C++ bitwise logical operations work for more types.
- * For C++, gmp.h now includes cstdio, improving compiler compatibility.
- * Bases > 36 now work properly in mpf_set_str.
-
- Speedups:
- * None, except that proper processor recognition helps affected processors.
-
- Features:
- * The allocation functions now detect overflow of the mpz_t type. This means
- that overflow will now cause an abort, except when the allocation
- computation itself overflows. (Such overflow can probably only happen in
- powering functions; we will detect powering overflow in the future.)
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 4.2.1 and 4.2.2
-
- * License is now LGPL version 3.
-
- Bugs:
- * Shared library numbers corrected for libcxx.
- * Fixed serious bug in gmpxx.h where a=a+b*c would generate garbage.
- Note that this only affects C++ programs.
- * Fix crash in mpz_set_d for arguments with large negative exponent.
- * Fix 32-bit ABI bug with Itanium assembly for popcount and hamdist.
- * Fix assembly syntax problem for powerpc-ibm-aix with AIX native assembler.
- * Fix problems with x86 --enable-fat, where the compiler where told to
- generate code for the build machine, not plain i386 code as it should.
- * Improved recognition of powerpc systems wrt Altivec/VMX capability.
- * Misc minor fixes, mainly workarounds for compiler/assembler bugs.
-
- Speedups:
- * "Core 2" and Pentium 4 processors, running in 64-bit mode will get a
- slight boost as they are now specifically recognized.
-
- Features:
- * New support for x86_64-solaris
- * New, rudimentary support for x86-apple-darwin and x86_64-apple-darwin.
- (Please see https://gmplib.org/macos.html for more information.)
-
-
-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.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 4.1.3 and 4.1.4
-
-* 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.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 4.1.2 and 4.1.3
-
-* Bug fix for FFT multiplication code (miscomputation).
-* Bug fix to K6 assembly code for gcd.
-* Bug fix to IA-64 assembly code for population count.
-* Portability improvements, most notably functional AMD64 support.
-* mpz_export allows NULL for countp parameter.
-* Many minor bug fixes.
-* mpz_export allows NULL for countp parameter.
-* Upwardly binary compatible with 4.1.2, 4.1.1, 4.1, 4.0.1, 4.0, and 3.x
- versions.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 4.1.1 and 4.1.2
-
-* Bug fixes.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 4.1 and 4.1.1
-
-* Bug fixes.
-* New systems supported: NetBSD and OpenBSD sparc64.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 4.0.1 and 4.1
-
-* 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 improvements for HPPA 2.0 systems.
-* Major speed improvements for UltraSPARC systems.
-* Major speed improvements 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.)
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 4.0 and 4.0.1
-
-* Bug fixes.
-
-
-Changes between GMP 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.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 3.1 and 3.1.1
-
-* Bug fixes for division (rare), mpf_get_str, FFT, and miscellaneous minor
- things.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 3.0 and 3.1
-
-* Bug fixes.
-* Improved `make check' running more tests.
-* Tuned algorithm cutoff points for many machines. This will improve speed for
- a lot of operations, in some cases by a large amount.
-* Major speed improvements: Alpha 21264.
-* Some speed improvements: Cray vector computers, AMD K6 and Athlon, Intel P5
- and Pentium Pro/II/III.
-* The mpf_get_prec function now works as it did in GMP 2.
-* New utilities for auto-tuning and speed measuring.
-* Multiplication now optionally uses FFT for very large operands. (To enable
- it, pass --enable-fft to configure.)
-* Support for new systems: Solaris running on x86, FreeBSD 5, HP-UX 11, Cray
- vector computers, Rhapsody, Nextstep/Openstep, MacOS.
-* Support for shared libraries on 32-bit HPPA.
-* New integer functions: mpz_mul_si, mpz_odd_p, mpz_even_p.
-* New Kronecker symbol functions: mpz_kronecker_si, mpz_kronecker_ui,
- mpz_si_kronecker, mpz_ui_kronecker.
-* New rational functions: mpq_out_str, mpq_swap.
-* New float functions: mpf_swap.
-* New mpn functions: mpn_divexact_by3c, mpn_tdiv_qr.
-* New EXPERIMENTAL function layer for accurate floating-point arithmetic, mpfr.
- To try it, pass --enable-mpfr to configure. See the mpfr subdirectory for
- more information; it is not documented in the main GMP manual.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 3.0 and 3.0.1
-
-* Memory leaks in gmp_randinit and mpz_probab_prime_p fixed.
-* Documentation for gmp_randinit fixed. Misc documentation errors fixed.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 2.0 and 3.0
-
-* Source level compatibility with past releases (except mpn_gcd).
-* Bug fixes.
-* Much improved speed thanks to both host independent and host dependent
- optimizations.
-* Switch to autoconf/automake/libtool.
-* Support for building libgmp as a shared library.
-* Multiplication and squaring using 3-way Toom-Cook.
-* Division using the Burnikel-Ziegler method.
-* New functions computing binomial coefficients: mpz_bin_ui, mpz_bin_uiui.
-* New function computing Fibonacci numbers: mpz_fib_ui.
-* New random number generators: mpf_urandomb, mpz_rrandomb, mpz_urandomb,
- mpz_urandomm, gmp_randclear, gmp_randinit, gmp_randinit_lc_2exp,
- gmp_randseed, gmp_randseed_ui.
-* New function for quickly extracting limbs: mpz_getlimbn.
-* New functions performing integer size tests: mpz_fits_sint_p,
- mpz_fits_slong_p, mpz_fits_sshort_p, mpz_fits_uint_p, mpz_fits_ulong_p,
- mpz_fits_ushort_p.
-* New mpf functions: mpf_ceil, mpf_floor, mpf_pow_ui, mpf_trunc.
-* New mpq function: mpq_set_d.
-* New mpz functions: mpz_addmul_ui, mpz_cmpabs, mpz_cmpabs_ui, mpz_lcm,
- mpz_nextprime, mpz_perfect_power_p, mpz_remove, mpz_root, mpz_swap,
- mpz_tdiv_ui, mpz_tstbit, mpz_xor.
-* New mpn function: mpn_divexact_by3.
-* New CPU support: DEC Alpha 21264, AMD K6 and Athlon, HPPA 2.0 and 64,
- Intel Pentium Pro and Pentium-II/III, Sparc 64, PowerPC 64.
-* Almost 10 times faster mpz_invert and mpn_gcdext.
-* The interface of mpn_gcd has changed.
-* Better support for MIPS R4x000 and R5000 under Irix 6.
-* Improved support for SPARCv8 and SPARCv9 processors.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 2.0 and 2.0.2
-
-* Many bug fixes.
-
-
-Changes between GMP version 1.3.2 and 2.0
-
-* Division routines in the mpz class have changed. There are three classes of
- functions, that rounds the quotient to -infinity, 0, and +infinity,
- respectively. The first class of functions have names that begin with
- mpz_fdiv (f is short for floor), the second class' names begin with mpz_tdiv
- (t is short for trunc), and the third class' names begin with mpz_cdiv (c is
- short for ceil).
-
- The old division routines beginning with mpz_m are similar to the new
- mpz_fdiv, with the exception that some of the new functions return useful
- values.
-
- The old function names can still be used. All the old functions names will
- now do floor division, not trunc division as some of them used to. This was
- changed to make the functions more compatible with common mathematical
- practice.
-
- The mpz_mod and mpz_mod_ui functions now compute the mathematical mod
- function. I.e., the sign of the 2nd argument is ignored.
-
-* The mpq assignment functions do not canonicalize their results. A new
- function, mpq_canonicalize must be called by the user if the result is not
- known to be canonical.
-* The mpn functions are now documented. These functions are intended for
- very time critical applications, or applications that need full control over
- memory allocation. Note that the mpn interface is irregular and hard to
- use.
-* New functions for arbitrary precision floating point arithmetic. Names
- begin with `mpf_'. Associated type mpf_t.
-* New and improved mpz functions, including much faster GCD, fast exact
- division (mpz_divexact), bit scan (mpz_scan0 and mpz_scan1), and number
- theoretical functions like Jacobi (mpz_jacobi) and multiplicative inverse
- (mpz_invert).
-* New variable types (mpz_t and mpq_t) are available that makes syntax of
- mpz and mpq calls nicer (no need for & before variables). The MP_INT and
- MP_RAT types are still available for compatibility.
-* Uses GNU configure. This makes it possible to choose target architecture
- and CPU variant, and to compile into a separate object directory.
-* Carefully optimized assembly for important inner loops. Support for DEC
- Alpha, Amd 29000, HPPA 1.0 and 1.1, Intel Pentium and generic x86, Intel
- i960, Motorola MC68000, MC68020, MC88100, and MC88110, Motorola/IBM
- PowerPC, National NS32000, IBM POWER, MIPS R3000, R4000, SPARCv7,
- SuperSPARC, generic SPARCv8, and DEC VAX. Some support also for ARM,
- Clipper, IBM ROMP (RT), and Pyramid AP/XP.
-* Faster. Thanks to the assembler code, new algorithms, and general tuning.
- In particular, the speed on machines without GCC is improved.
-* Support for machines without alloca.
-* Now under the LGPL.
-
-INCOMPATIBILITIES BETWEEN GMP 1 AND GMP 2
-
-* mpq assignment functions do not canonicalize their results.
-* mpz division functions round differently.
-* mpz mod functions now really compute mod.
-* mpz_powm and mpz_powm_ui now really use mod for reduction.