Re: Do we have a floatingpoint bug?

I'm talking about the PI generation code.

/ David Hedbor

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2003-03-21 21:20: Subject: Re: Do we have a floatingpoint bug?

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I'm not sure what you mean by "adopted in the tree", we are not bundling gmp with the Pike distributions.

As far as I can remember, the mpn functions in gmp can be used in a way that handles out-of-memory conditions, but the higher level functions (mpz/mpf/mpq) can not. It would be possible to rewrite the Pike glue to use mpn functions only, but that would mean reimplenting a lot of stuff that is already in gmp, and be a lot of work which nobody has been particularly interrested in doing so far.

/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)