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authorwolfbeast <mcwerewolf@gmail.com>2018-02-06 11:46:26 +0100
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@@ -67,14 +67,6 @@ assumptions about the sizes of things, but there is little if any
reason to change the other parameters, so I would recommend you leave
them as you found them.
-The library comes with a Perl script, 'types.pl', which will scan your
-current Makefile settings, and attempt to find good definitions for
-these types. It relies on a Unix sort of build environment, so it
-probably won't work under MacOS or Windows, but it can be convenient
-if you're porting to a new flavour of Unix. Just run 'types.pl' at
-the command line, and it will spit out its results to the standard
-output.
-
Conventions
-----------
@@ -503,9 +495,6 @@ MP_MODARITH - Define true to include the modular arithmetic
in your application, you can set this to zero to
leave out all the modular routines.
-MP_NUMTH - Define true to include number theoretic functions
- such as mp_gcd(), mp_lcm(), and mp_invmod().
-
MP_LOGTAB - If true, the file "logtab.h" is included, which
is basically a static table of base 2 logarithms.
These are used to compute how big the buffers for
@@ -633,92 +622,6 @@ Most of these can be built from the Makefile that comes with the
library. Try 'make tools', if your environment supports it.
-Testing the Library
--------------------
-
-Automatic test vectors are included, in the form of a program called
-'mpi-test'. To build this program and run all the tests, simply
-invoke the shell script 'all-tests'. If all the tests pass, you
-should see a message:
-
- All tests passed
-
-If something went wrong, you'll get:
-
- One or more tests failed.
-
-If this happens, scan back through the preceding lines, to see which
-test failed. Any failure indicates a bug in the library, which needs
-to be fixed before it will give accurate results. If you get any such
-thing, please let me know, and I'll try to fix it. Please let me know
-what platform and compiler you were using, as well as which test
-failed. If a reason for failure was given, please send me that text
-as well.
-
-If you're on a system where the standard Unix build tools don't work,
-you can build the 'mpi-test' program manually, and run it by hand.
-This is tedious and obnoxious, sorry.
-
-Further manual testing can be performed by building the manual testing
-programs, whose source is found in the 'tests' subdirectory. Each
-test is in a source file called 'mptest-X.c'. The Makefile contains a
-target to build all of them at once:
-
- make tests
-
-Read the comments at the top of each source file to see what the
-driver is supposed to test. You probably don't need to do this; these
-programs were only written to help me as I was developing the library.
-
-The relevant files are:
-
-mpi-test.c The source for the test driver
-
-make-test-arrays A Perl script to generate some of the internal
- data structures used by mpi-test.c
-
-test-arrays.txt The source file for make-test-arrays
-
-all-tests A Bourne shell script which runs all the
- tests in the mpi-test suite
-
-Running 'make mpi-test' should build the mpi-test program. If you
-cannot use make, here is what needs to be done:
-
-(1) Use 'make-test-arrays' to generate the file 'test-info.c' from
- the 'test-arrays.txt' file. Since Perl can be found everywhere,
- this should be no trouble. Under Unix, this looks like:
-
- make-test-arrays test-arrays.txt > test-info.c
-
-(2) Build the MPI library:
-
- gcc -ansi -pedantic -Wall -c mpi.c
-
-(3) Build the mpi-test program:
-
- gcc -ansi -pedantic -Wall -o mpi-test mpi.o mpi-test.c
-
-When you've got mpi-test, you can use 'all-tests' to run all the tests
-made available by mpi-test. If any of them fail, there should be a
-diagnostic indicating what went wrong. These are fairly high-level
-diagnostics, and won't really help you debug the problem; they're
-simply intended to help you isolate which function caused the problem.
-If you encounter a problem of this sort, feel free to e-mail me, and I
-will certainly attempt to help you debug it.
-
-Note: Several of the tests hard-wired into 'mpi-test' operate under
----- the assumption that you are using at least a 16-bit mp_digit
- type. If that is not true, several tests might fail, because
- of range problems with the maximum digit value.
-
- If you are using an 8-bit digit, you will also need to
- modify the code for mp_read_raw(), which assumes that
- multiplication by 256 can be done with mp_mul_d(), a
- fact that fails when DIGIT_MAX is 255. You can replace
- the call with s_mp_lshd(), which will give you the same
- effect, and without doing as much work. :)
-
Acknowledgements:
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