Re: Please test pari-2.5.3 prerelease 1

["L. Cangelmi" <lcangelmi@unich.it>]

Tested on
MacOSX 10.3.9 (darwin. ppc 32-bit, gcc-3.3, gmp-4.3.2, readline-6.2)
and on
Ubuntu 10.04 (linux, x86_64, gcc-4.4.3, gmp-4.3.2, readline-6.1).

In both cases, everything was fine: compilation and installation of gp
(with or without gmp), compilation and installation of docs, bench,
test-all and test-kernel.


However, I point out three minor questions:

[1] In compilation (make gp) of 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3pre1 and 2.6.0
on Ubuntu 10.04 (with gcc-4.4.3, with or without gmp-4.3.2) I get the
following warnings for galois.c (but there were not bugs in test-galois)
(note also that they were not present for pari-2.3.5 on Ubuntu 9.10 with
gcc-4.4.1, and are not present for pari-2.5.3pre1 on MacOS X 10.3.9):
===
/usr/bin/gcc  -c -I. -I../src/headers -fPIC -O3 -Wall  
-fno-strict-aliasing -fomi
t-frame-pointer    -o galois.o ../src/modules/galois.c
../src/modules/galois.c: In function ?read_obj?:
../src/modules/galois.c:327: warning: ignoring return value of  
?fread?, declared
 with attribute warn_unused_result
../src/modules/galois.c: In function ?lirecoset?:
../src/modules/galois.c:343: warning: ignoring return value of  
?fread?, declared
 with attribute warn_unused_result
../src/modules/galois.c:344: warning: ignoring return value of  
?fread?, declared
 with attribute warn_unused_result
../src/modules/galois.c:345: warning: ignoring return value of  
?fread?, declared
 with attribute warn_unused_result
../src/modules/galois.c: In function ?lireresolv?:
../src/modules/galois.c:356: warning: ignoring return value of  
?fread?, declared
 with attribute warn_unused_result
../src/modules/galois.c:357: warning: ignoring return value of  
?fread?, declared
 with attribute warn_unused_result
===

[2] The last line of the output of kerntest of 2.5.1, 2.5.2 and 2.5.3pre1
on Ubuntu 10.04 (with gcc-4.4.3, with or without gmp-4.3.2) is:
===
gcc bug?:6000000000000000  c000000000000000
===
While for 2.5.3pre1 on MacOS X 10.3.9 it is
gcc bug?:60000000  c0000000  00000000.
Is it a warning to take into account?

[3] It seems to me that the file INSTALL.pdf (i.e. appa.tex) should be
updated: in the section about kernels, we should read that the default
kernel is auto-gmp (not auto-none).


Best wishes

Leonardo Cangelmi

---------------------------------------------------------
Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote
(Tue, 25 Sep 2012):

> Dear PARI developers,
>
> As planned, I have made a prerelease of PARI 2.5.3.
>
> Please test the new tarball:
> <http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/snapshots/pari-2.5.3.pre1.tar.gz>
>
> Also, if you are using Fedora, please check whether PARI 2.6 fixes bug #1333,
> and whether I should backport it.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bill.