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diff libtommath/changes.txt @ 1692:1051e4eea25a
Update LibTomMath to 1.2.0 (#84)
* update C files
* update other files
* update headers
* update makefiles
* remove mp_set/get_double()
* use ltm 1.2.0 API
* update ltm_desc
* use bundled tommath if system-tommath is too old
* XMALLOC etc. were changed to MP_MALLOC etc.
author | Steffen Jaeckel <s@jaeckel.eu> |
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date | Tue, 26 May 2020 17:36:47 +0200 |
parents | f52919ffd3b1 |
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--- a/libtommath/changes.txt Tue May 26 23:27:26 2020 +0800 +++ b/libtommath/changes.txt Tue May 26 17:36:47 2020 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,40 @@ +XXX XXth, 2019 +v1.2.0 + -- A huge refactoring of the library happened - renaming, + deprecating and replacing existing functions by improved API's. + + All deprecated functions, macros and symbols are only marked as such + so this version is still API and ABI compatible to v1.x. + + -- Daniel Mendler was pushing for those changes and contributing a load of patches, + refactorings, code reviews and whatnotelse. + -- Christoph Zurnieden re-worked internals of the library, improved the performance, + did code reviews and wrote documentation. + -- Francois Perrad did some refactoring and took again care of linting the sources and + provided all fixes. + -- Jan Nijtmans, Karel Miko and Joachim Breitner contributed various patches. + + -- Private symbols can now be hidden for the shared library builds, disabled by default. + -- All API's follow a single code style, are prefixed the same etc. + -- Unified, safer and improved API's + -- Less magic numbers - return values (where appropriate) and most flags are now enums, + this was implemented in a backwards compatible way where return values were int. + -- API's with return values are now by default marked as "warn on unsused result", this + can be disabled if required (which will most likely hide bugs), c.f. MP_WUR in tommath.h + -- Provide a whole set of setters&getters for different primitive types (long, uint32_t, etc.) + -- All those primitive setters are now optimized. + -- It's possible to automatically tune the cutoff values for Karatsuba&Toom-Cook + -- The custom allocators which were formerly known as XMALLOC(), XFREE() etc. are now available + as MP_MALLOC(), MP_REALLOC(), MP_CALLOC() and MP_FREE(). MP_REALLOC() and MP_FREE() now also + provide the allocated size to ease the usage of simple allocators without tracking. + -- Building is now also possible with MSVC 2015, 2017 and 2019 (use makefile.msvc) + -- Added mp_decr() and mp_incr() + -- Added mp_log_u32() + -- Improved prime-checking + -- Improved Toom-Cook multiplication + -- Removed the LTM book (`make docs` now builds the user manual) + + Jan 28th, 2019 v1.1.0 -- Christoph Zurnieden contributed FIPS 186.4 compliant