/mpfr

GNU MPFR is an efficient arbitrary-precision floating-point library with well-defined semantics (copying the good ideas from the IEEE 754 standard), in particular correct rounding in 5 rounding modes. (unofficial mirror)

Primary LanguageCGNU Lesser General Public License v3.0LGPL-3.0

Copyright 2000-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Contributed by the AriC and Caramba projects, INRIA.

This file is part of the GNU MPFR Library.

The GNU MPFR Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.

The GNU MPFR Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public
License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with the GNU MPFR Library; see the file COPYING.LESSER.
If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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The GNU MPFR distribution contains the following files:
(This does not apply to code retrieved by Git.)

AUTHORS         - the authors of the library
BUGS            - bugs in MPFR - please read this file!
COPYING         - the GNU General Public License, version 3
COPYING.LESSER  - the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3
ChangeLog       - the log of changes
INSTALL         - how to install MPFR (see also mpfr.texi)
Makefile*       - files for building the library
NEWS            - new features with respect to previous versions
PATCHES         - empty file (until patches are applied)
README          - this file
TODO            - what remains to do (any help is welcome!)
VERSION         - version of MPFR (next release version if taken by Git)
ac*.m4          - automatic configuration files
ar-lib          - auxiliary installation file
compile         - auxiliary installation file
config.*        - auxiliary installation files
configure*      - configuration files
depcomp         - auxiliary installation file
doc/            - directory containing documentation (manual, FAQ, etc.)
examples/       - directory containing examples
install-sh      - installation file
ltmain.sh       - auxiliary installation file
m4/             - directory containing additional configuration files
missing         - auxiliary installation file
mpfr.pc.in      - auxiliary pkg-config file
src/            - directory containing the MPFR source
test-driver     - auxiliary installation file
tests/          - directory containing the testsuite (for "make check")
tools/          - directory containing various tools
tune/           - directory containing files for tuning MPFR
version-ext.sh  - script to get Git-related MPFR version information

According to the special exception to the GNU General Public License,
the autotools files compile, config.sub, config.guess, ltmain.sh,
m4/libtool.m4 and missing are distributed under the same licence of
GNU MPFR.

For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package,
note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.


Official GNU MPFR website:

  https://www.mpfr.org/


You can get the latest source code by Git at Inria GitLab:

  https://gitlab.inria.fr/mpfr/mpfr

In this case, you should read the file "doc/README.dev" in the working tree
or online:

  https://gitlab.inria.fr/mpfr/mpfr/-/blob/master/doc/README.dev