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@@ -530,9 +530,12 @@ a. Using MinGW you can use the MinGW runtime package (which is an integral part of MinGW). For example, with MinGW versions 3.15 and later you can get an ISO-compliant printf() if you compile your application with either - '-ansi', '-posix' or '-D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO'. For example, you should - compile GMP (not MPFR) with CC="gcc -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO" (since the - printf modifiers %Ld and %td are passed to GMP). + '-ansi', '-posix' or '-D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO'. In order to have the + MPFR formatted output functions based on ISO-compliant printf(), you + need to compile GMP (not MPFR) with CC="gcc -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO" + (since the standard printf modifiers %Ld and %td are passed to GMP). + Building MPFR with -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO is useless except for some + error messages in the test suite. b. Using Cygwin =============== |