GNU MPFR 3.1.2: Other Changes
Description: How to install and use GNU MPFR, a library for reliable multiple precision floating-point arithmetic, version 3.1.2.

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### 6.5 Other Changes

For users of a C++ compiler, the way how the availability of `intmax_t` is detected has changed in MPFR 3.0. In MPFR 2.x, if a macro `INTMAX_C` or `UINTMAX_C` was defined (e.g. when the `__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS` macro had been defined before `<stdint.h>` or `<inttypes.h>` has been included), `intmax_t` was assumed to be defined. However this was not always the case (more precisely, `intmax_t` can be defined only in the namespace `std`, as with Boost), so that compilations could fail. Thus the check for `INTMAX_C` or `UINTMAX_C` is now disabled for C++ compilers, with the following consequences:

- Programs written for MPFR 2.x that need `intmax_t` may no longer be compiled against MPFR 3.0: a `#define MPFR_USE_INTMAX_T` may be necessary before `mpfr.h` is included.
- The compilation of programs that work with MPFR 3.0 may fail with MPFR 2.x due to the problem described above. Workarounds are possible, such as defining `intmax_t` and `uintmax_t` in the global namespace, though this is not clean.

The divide-by-zero exception is new in MPFR 3.1. However it should not introduce incompatible changes for programs that strictly follow the MPFR API since the exception can only be seen via new functions.

As of MPFR 3.1, the `mpfr.h` header can be included several times, while still supporting optional functions (see Headers and Libraries).