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| author | zimmerma <zimmerma@280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4> | 1999-11-27 08:09:46 +0000 |
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| committer | zimmerma <zimmerma@280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4> | 1999-11-27 08:09:46 +0000 |
| commit | 035c0944307bd2d9e8632c8a135f321f5a50bd58 (patch) | |
| tree | e055131c76174ead1f1fc4cb3a5e26b95dff94ef /INSTALL | |
| parent | 94ca8439c9553d6a3e9b5a12407d136e83c608a9 (diff) | |
| download | mpfr-035c0944307bd2d9e8632c8a135f321f5a50bd58.tar.gz | |
improved GMP link (thanks to Vincent Lefe`vre)
added pointer to Alpha-Linux f-p problems
git-svn-id: svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/mpfr/trunk@407 280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Installing mpfr-0.0 =================== -0. You first need to install GMP. See http://www.swox.com/gmp. +0. You first need to install GMP. See <http://www.swox.com/gmp/>. MPFR needs the gmp include file gmp-mparam.h that will be created during the compilation of gmp in the mpn subdirectory. So that all GMP include files are in the same directory, once @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ errors as follows: libm.a differs from mpfr_sqrt for a=9.89438396044940260000e-134, rnd_mode=2 libm.a gives 3.14553397063986620000e-67, mpfr_sqrt gives 3.14553397063986680000e-67 (1 ulp) +Also, Linux on Alpha is known to have problems with IEEE conformance. See +http://www.linux.org.uk/VERSION/relnotes.2211.html. + In most cases, as above, the error comes from the libm.a. On Alpha/Linux, which is known to have a bad libm.a, you may even find errors in the addition or multiplication. |