[Python-Dev] Re: mpz module broken with GMP 4.0

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

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> Thanks for the indication -- I was not aware of the new GMP 4.0.  A rapid=
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> test shows the current gmpy.c, release 0.8, breaks in exactly one place=
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> (structure gmpstate_t used to have a member named seed, now renamed to=20
> _mp_seed).  Once that single line is fixed, gmpy 0.8 builds fine (on a=20

Have you commited to the CVS? It'd be nice to have it compiling with
both, the new and the old gmp.

> Linux box) with the new GMP 4.0 and passes all of its 973 unit-tests (wit=
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> Python 2.2b1).  I think we should rapidly release a 0.8.1 with the one-li=
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> fix (arranged so it keeps building with GMP 3.1 while also building with=
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> 4.0, of course), and plan the modest gmpy extensions needed to exploit=20

Ohh.. that's it! Nice.. :-)

I'll commit the multiprecision pi code, so the next version already
includes it.

Thanks!!

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Gustavo Niemeyer

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