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authorvlefevre <vlefevre@280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4>2020-07-01 13:59:32 +0000
committervlefevre <vlefevre@280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4>2020-07-01 13:59:32 +0000
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[NEWS] Added an item saying that TLS can safely be (re-)enabled
on Sparc. (merged changeset r14047 from the trunk) git-svn-id: svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/mpfr/branches/4.1@14048 280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4
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@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ Changes from versions 4.0.* to version 4.1.0:
GMP reserved prefix (experimental).
- Mini-gmp support: replaced --enable-mini-gmp configure option by
--with-mini-gmp (still experimental, read doc/mini-gmp).
+- A GCC bug on Sparc (present at least in old GCC 4.5.3 and 5.5.0 versions),
+ which made several tests fail when TLS was enabled, is now avoided in the
+ tests. The MPFR library itself was not affected and normal code using the
+ MPFR library should not be affected either. Users and distributions that
+ disabled TLS just because of the test failures can safely re-enable it.
Changes from versions 3.1.* to version 4.0.0:
- The "dinde aux marrons" release.