From 6624037c9329339616c3ad28c7ff41a2d2d0dfdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: vlefevre Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:07:47 +0000 Subject: [NEWS] Mention the complete rewrite of function mpfr_sum. git-svn-id: svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/mpfr/trunk@9373 280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4 --- NEWS | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4926bb6cd..5d0ce01ac 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ Changes from versions 3.1.* to version 3.2.0: yield undefined behavior in some cases (this modifies both the API and the ABI). - Function mpfr_grandom is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. +- Complete rewrite of function mpfr_sum, which now works in all cases (the + old one could take all the memory and/or crash with inputs of different + magnitudes in case of huge cancellation or table maker's dilemma). - Internally, improved caching: a minimum of 10% increase of the precision is guaranteed to avoid too many recomputations; added mpz_t caching. [TODO: add shared caches; note that the ABI can be changed.] -- cgit v1.2.1