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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> | 2008-10-24 22:43:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-10-25 21:05:41 +0200 |
| commit | fec0e89c20db8772854335382aceb260cb7abef2 (patch) | |
| tree | 943f5fe36b7d34aca38a1f652d01c4d4a1aaeaa6 /doc | |
| parent | 407e8f0fdd74b04a266dafa01ca896779f7706a1 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-fec0e89c20db8772854335382aceb260cb7abef2.tar.xz | |
factor: remove --bignum and --no-bignum options
Here's a patch to remove the --bignum and --no-bignum options from
'factor'. The case for removing --bignum isn't as strong as that for
'expr', but still, it seems to me that these options are not needed and
complicate the documentation unnecessarily.
* doc/coreutils.texi (factor invocation): Remove --bignum, --no-bignum.
* src/factor.c (algorithm, ALGORITHM_CHOICE, USE_BIGNUM, NO_USE_BIGNUM):
Remove; all uses removed.
(extract_factors_multi): Remove, replacing with....
(print_factors_multi): New function, with signature similar to that
of new signature of print_factors_single.
(print_factors_single): Migrate checking code to caller.
(print_factors): Use GMP if it's available; don't bother asking user.
Improve accuracy of check for "large" numbers.
(long_options, main): Remove support for --bignum.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 9 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index cbef0139b..2d11388bf 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -14654,15 +14654,6 @@ The @command{factor} command supports only a small number of options: Print a short help on standard output, then exit without further processing. -@item --bignum -Always use unlimited precision arithmetic via the GNU MP library. -By default, @command{factor} selects between using GNU MP and using -native operations on the basis of the length of the number to be factored. - -@item --no-bignum -Always use limited-precision native operations, not GNU MP. -This causes @command{factor} to fail for larger inputs. - @item --version Print the program version on standard output, then exit without further processing. |