Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science
Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science
Because of my new job, I do not have time to continue developing this project. If you send me patches for this software, I will put them on-line, but I will not provide updates myself any more. If you want to ‘adopt’ this project, you are invited to do so. If you let me know, I will link to a new project page.
This free software library implements a number of special values for computer arithmetic use. The ideas behind the implementation are described in ‘Universal semantics for computer arithmetic implementations’ by B. Verdonk, J. Vervloet and A. Cuyt.
The library is known to work under Red Hat Linux 9, Sun Solaris, Mac OS X and Debian GNU/Linux sarge. In fact it should work under any Linux or *BSD, provided that you have installed gcc 3.3.2 or an equivalent compiler.
This library is installed the ‘standard GNU way’ :
If you don't want a ‘standard installation’, you can provide some command-line options to configure. Enter ‘./configure --help’ for a list of available options.
Since version 0.3.0, a user manual is included in the source distribution. You can also download the pdf version.
SpecialValue is used in libRational, a wrapper around the rational arithmetic of GNU gmp, and in the Arithmos project of the research group Computer Arithmetic and Numerical Techniques at the University of Antwerpen.
For bugfixes, suggestions, questions, more information,... : johan.vervloet@ua.ac.be
Copyright (c) 2003 Johan Vervloet.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.
Modified: 27 September 2006
