[Mplapack-devel] [ANNOUNCE] MPACK 0.7.0 has just been released

[Maho N. <ma...@ri...>]

Hi lists,

I have just uploaded MPACK 0.7.0.
you can download from here.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplapack/files/mpack/mpack%200.7.0/mpack-0.7.0.tar.gz/download
or
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mplapack/files/mpack/mpack%200.7.0/mpack-0.7.0.tar.gz/download
.
MD5sum and SHA256sum are following:
MD5: 77d285c83f66f196fd7e3379dd97365
SHA256: 14d11bf51f6d40c59937117d8f13095383dc080d9aea741ea234fd3bff8bdb15
.

New features:
 
* __float128 support:
   IEEE 754 2008 binary128 or quadruple precision, which is a gcc's original extension.
  Not available for Intel compiler.
* The GMP and DD versions are build by default to reduce the build time significantly.
* FORTRAN compiler is not needed anymore as default.
 
Supported platforms:

64bit platform is strongly recommended.
* MacOSX Lion (Xcode or gcc-4.6 of macports), Linux (Red Hat 6.0, Ubuntu 12.04), 
  FreeBSD 9.0/amd64, 8.2/amd64.
* Mingw32 (tested on FreeBSD 9.0/amd64 and wine64).

Known issues:
* Debugging feature is not supported on Mingw32.
* QD, DD types are not supported on Mingw32.
* Static library is not supported on all platforms. 
* Some debugging functions are known to fail. Especially Intel compilers
outputs broken executables although these are very rare cases.

Special Thanks To:
* FUJISAWA, Katsuki
* NAKASATO, Naoto
* GOTO, Kazushige
* IMAMURA, Toshiyuki
* HIMENO, Ryutaro

Acknowledgment:
This work was supported by the Special Postdoctoral Researchers' Program of RIKEN, 
was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 21300017,
and CORE 6 project by Institute for Japanese Academic Research Collaboration
of Microsoft research.

Thanks,
-- Nakata Maho http://accc.riken.jp/maho/ , JA OOO http://ja.openoffice.org/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/nakatamaho/ ,GPG: http://accc.riken.jp/maho/maho.pgp.txt