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 X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: DJGPP announcements Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GMP 3.0.1 library Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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/ ]