Dear all,
I am pleased to announce hmpfr-0.3.2, a new version of Aleš Bizjak's bindings
to the MPFR arbitrary precision floating point arithmetic library. The
changes in this version are quite small but significant:
- support for MPFR 3.0.0 as well as MPFR 2.4.*
- dependency on integer-simple instead of integer-gmp
The latter is most significant because unfortunately it makes it rather more
difficult to install hmpfr. Currently almost all binary distributions of ghc
have integer-gmp compiled in to provide the Integer type via the standard GMP
library. Also haskell platform 2010.2.0.0 assumes that ghc has been compiled
with integer-gmp although it makes no specific use of it. Instructions on how
to compile ghc and haskell platform with integer-simple instead of integer-gmp
are on:
http://code.google.com/p/hmpfr/wiki/GHCWithoutGMP
The rationale for this change is the fact that despite much effort hmpfr is
very unreliable on ghc that includes integer-gmp due to ghc deallocating GMP
data that was allocated by MPFR at unpredictable times.
Aleš and I hope that hmpfr can return to using integer-gmp once the proposal
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes#BinaryDropinRepla...
to replace gmp with a modified gmp in ghc is implemented and made the default.
Best regards,
Michal
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|o| Michal Konecny