Message-Id:	<200006121928.PAA32530@delorie.com>
Sender:	rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk
Date:	Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:08:23 +0100
From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To:	DJGPP announcements <djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GMP 3.0.1 library
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Hello.

I have ported the GNU MP Library to DJGPP (the only changes were to the
test suite). It is available from the DJGPP archive on Simtelnet:

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gmp301b.zip
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gmp301d.zip
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gmp301s.zip

These are binaries, documentation (*) and source packages respectively.

(*) texinfo, DVI, PostScript, HTML, plain text - info docs are included
with the binaries.

Here is a description of GNU MP, taken from the Readme file:

"GNU MP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on
signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.  It has a
rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface.

GNU MP is designed to be as fast as possible, both for small operands and
huge operands.  The speed is achieved by using fullwords as the basic
arithmetic type, by using fast algorithms, with carefully optimized
assembly code for the most common inner loops for lots of CPUs, and by a
general emphasis on speed (instead of simplicity or elegance).

GNU MP is believed to be faster than any other similar library.  Its
advantage increases with operand sizes for certain operations, since GNU
MP in many cases has asymptotically faster algorithms."

I have not tested the port extensively, but it passed all its self-tests.
I have not tried building the sources without Long File Names (with 8+3
limitation on filenames). If you have any problems with the port, please
mail me.

Thanks, bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
[ mailto:richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ]

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