[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hmpfr-0.3.2 (requires integer-simple, supports mpfr 3.0.0)

[Daniel Peebles]

According to Duncan Coutts (whom I asked about this issue in #ghc), the
solution here is to use the new foreign import prim machinery to talk to
MPFR. This prevents GC from occurring during the MPFR calls and will make
everything work nicely without reimplementing GMP.

Dan

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you submitted a bug report to GHC of why it can't work with the
> current integer-gmp binding? I know that GHC's collector is collecting
> MPFR's temporary data, but maybe it'd be good to get a discussion going on
> what can be done to stop it from doing this even in the context of the
> existing integer-gmp + GHC's allocator (even if this needs to be a patch to
> MPFR to talk to GHC a bit here and there). Might it help to go through CMM
> like the GMP binding does, for example?
>
> I'd really like to see libraries that use GMP work nicely with GHC, without
> going and reimplementing GMP more slowly and so on.
>
> Dan
>
> 2011/3/3 Michal Konečný <mik at konecny.aow.cz>
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>> I am pleased to announce hmpfr-0.3.2, a new version of Aleš Bizjak's
>> bindings
>> to the MPFR arbitrary precision floating point arithmetic library.  The
>> changes in this version are quite small but significant:
>>
>> - support for MPFR 3.0.0 as well as MPFR 2.4.*
>> - dependency on integer-simple instead of integer-gmp
>>
>> The latter is most significant because unfortunately it makes it rather
>> more
>> difficult to install hmpfr.   Currently almost all binary distributions of
>> ghc
>> have integer-gmp compiled in to provide the Integer type via the standard
>> GMP
>> library.  Also haskell platform 2010.2.0.0 assumes that ghc has been
>> compiled
>> with integer-gmp although it makes no specific use of it.  Instructions on
>> how
>> to compile ghc and haskell platform with integer-simple instead of
>> integer-gmp
>> are on:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/hmpfr/wiki/GHCWithoutGMP
>>
>> The rationale for this change is the fact that despite much effort hmpfr
>> is
>> very unreliable on ghc that includes integer-gmp due to ghc deallocating
>> GMP
>> data that was allocated by MPFR at unpredictable times.
>>
>> Aleš and I hope that hmpfr can return to using integer-gmp once the
>> proposal
>>
>>
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes#BinaryDropinReplacementforGMP
>>
>> to replace gmp with a modified gmp in ghc is implemented and made the
>> default.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Michal
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