3.9 Compatibility with older versions

This version of GMP is upwardly binary compatible with all 4.x and 3.x versions, and upwardly compatible at the source level with all 2.x versions, with the following exceptions.

• mpn_gcd had its source arguments swapped as of GMP 3.0, for consistency with other mpn functions.
• mpf_get_prec counted precision slightly differently in GMP 3.0 and 3.0.1, but in 3.1 reverted to the 2.x style.

There are a number of compatibility issues between GMP 1 and GMP 2 that of course also apply when porting applications from GMP 1 to GMP 4. Please see the GMP 2 manual for details.

The Berkeley MP compatibility library (see section Berkeley MP Compatible Functions) is source and binary compatible with the standard ‘libmp’.

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