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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Subject: Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:49:11AM +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Steve Kargl:
> > Probably not for a very long time.  gcc 4.3 requires both GMP and
> > MPFR libraries.  Neither library is in src.
> 
> I do not know what MPFR is (something about FP, right?) but I wonder at why
> GMP could be needed by a compiler...
> 

http://www.mpfr.org/

The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point
computations with correct rounding.

It's used for constant folding.

-- 
Steve