On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 09:07:44 +0100, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: > "Steve M. Robbins" <[email protected]> writes: > > Dear GMP Developers, > > Is the following characterization of the changes between > 4.3.2 and 5.0.1 accurate? > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 03:30:45PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > As far as I can tell, the > > incompatibilities introduced in gmp 5 are the removal of mpn_bdivmod and > > mpn_neg_n, and the rest of the functions should stay compatible between > > gmp 4 and gmp 5. > > I think that if you mention mpn_neg_n, you need to make your list > longer. There was never documentation for mpn_neg_n, just like for > dozens of other internal functions that were removed. > I was going by the gmp.h changes. The declarations removed from that file appear to be for just these two, not dozens of others.
> I think those using internal functions are on their own. > Even better then. My concern was to make reasonably sure we could have libgmp.so.3 and libgmp.so.10 coexist for a while in the Debian archive, and that the risk of crashes due to both versions being loaded in the same address space would not be too high. Removed functions aren't a problem for this. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
