Re: libpari precision handling changes

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 05:48:57PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2023 at 09:52:55PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Dear PARI developers,
> > 
> > I committed a change to the way the precision is manipulated in the 
> > C library.
> > 
> > Now the precision is a multiple of BITS_IN_LONG.
> 
> This is a major backwards-incompatible change.  Should not it better
> be handled by introducing new names for macros and functions?  

It has been documented since 2013 than one should not assume that 
realprec==lg. 

Anyway, I am available to fix any code that is affected.
It is just a matter of using realprec, prec2nbits and nbits2prec properly.

Cheers,
Bill