gawk-mpfr: MPFR extension of GNU awk

Version: 1.1.0 , license: GPLv3+
Requires: gawk API 1.1+, gawkextlib, mpfr


Summary

The gawk-mpfr package contains the gawk MPFR shared library extension for accessing the MPFR library. Please compare this to using gawk's -M option to perform all calculations using MPFR.

Description

This is gawk-mpfr. This extension provides access to MPFR library functions, but please compare this to using gawk's -M flag. Please consult the bundled texinfo documentation for further information.

To build this package from git sources:

   autoreconf -i && configure && make && make check && make install

Authors

Jürgen Kahrs wrote the mpfr extension in 2006. Andrew Schorr has contributed some patches.

Documentation


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