From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller)
Cc: 10519@debbugs.gnu.org, Torbjorn Granlund <tg@gmplib.org>
Subject: bug#10519: guile and (mini-)gmp
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:48:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lihlqc3u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nnlihlf69e.fsf@stalhein.lysator.liu.se> ("Niels \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?M\=F6ller\=22's\?\= message of "Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:50:05 +0200")
nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) skribis:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> For me/us, the best workflow would be to have a Gnulib module. That
>> way, whenever GMP developers fix a bug in mini-gmp, we automatically get
>> the fix when running “gnulib-tool --update”.
>
> I guess you can do whatever you want in gnulib. But it should be made
> very clear that the gmp repo is the "official" version. Some gmp
> developers would be upset if a mini-gmp version in gnulib starts to
> diverge.
Yes, sure. There are cases where Gnulib contains copies of code
actually maintained elsewhere, such as in glibc. I’ll check with the
Gnulib folks whether/how such an arrangement could be made.
>> What about the maintenance overhead for GMP developers? I mean, of
>> those 5000 lines, most are copied from GMP, right?
>
> Not really. Some of that code is of course copied from various other gmp
> files, but a lot of it is written from scratch, giving priority to
> simplicity over performance.
OK.
>> So, bugs found in GMP may have to be fixed in mini-GMP too, for
>> instance.
>
> That's possible, but I don't think it's likely to be a big problem. I'd
> expect the typical bug in mini-gmp to be in the code which is *not*
> copied from other GMP files. And I'd expect the typical bug in gmp to be
> in complex algorithms or assembly code, which doesn't have any
> counterpart in mini-gmp.
Right.
> mini-gmp does have a reasonable testsuite, even if it's not as thorough
> as the main gmp testsuite. And mini-gmp is used in a normal gmp build
> (via bootstrap.c), for computing various tables used by the main gmp
> code. So the gmp project itself also depends on mini-gmp.
OK, good to know. ;-)
Thanks!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-11 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-15 21:22 bug#10519: guile and (mini-)gmp Niels Möller
2012-01-16 10:19 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-01-16 14:06 ` Niels Möller
2012-01-16 19:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-01-28 9:49 ` Niels Möller
2012-01-28 10:10 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-07-22 9:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-03 13:40 ` Andy Wingo
2012-02-03 19:56 ` Niels Möller
2012-02-03 20:01 ` Torbjorn Granlund
2012-02-04 22:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-07-22 9:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-07-22 23:17 ` Niels Möller
2012-08-10 21:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-08-11 9:37 ` Niels Möller
2012-08-11 19:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-08-11 21:50 ` Niels Möller
2012-08-11 22:48 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-03-02 20:04 ` Andy Wingo
2013-03-02 20:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-03-05 19:09 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-03-18 0:01 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-03-18 9:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-26 8:17 ` Niels Möller
2013-03-27 17:00 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-10-27 12:29 ` Niels Möller
2016-11-10 19:56 ` Andy Wingo
2013-03-02 21:45 ` Niels Möller
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