Changelog for integer-gmp package

1.0.2.0 April 2018

• Bundled with GHC 8.4.2

• Define powModSecInteger, a "secure" version of powModInteger using the mpz_powm_sec function.

1.0.1.0 July 2017

• Bundled with GHC 8.2.1

• Optimize minusInteger

• Fix the right-shift operation for negative big integers (fixes GHC #12136)

• Make operations more strict

1.0.0.1 Feb 2016

• Bundled with GHC 8.0.1

• Optimise bitBigNat/bigInteger

• Fix minor issue in eqBigNatWord#

• Various minor optimisations

1.0.0.0 Mar 2015

• Bundled with GHC 7.10.1

• Complete rewrite of integer-gmp. For more details, see https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Design/IntegerGmp2

0.5.1.0 Feb 2014

• Bundled with GHC 7.8.1

• Improved Haddock documentation

• New PrimBool versions of comparison predicates in GHC.Integer:

  eqInteger# :: Integer -> Integer -> Int#
  geInteger# :: Integer -> Integer -> Int#
  gtInteger# :: Integer -> Integer -> Int#
  leInteger# :: Integer -> Integer -> Int#
  ltInteger# :: Integer -> Integer -> Int#
  neqInteger# :: Integer -> Integer -> Int#
  

• New GHC.Integer.testBitInteger primitive for use with Data.Bits

• Reduce short-lived heap allocation and try to demote J# back to S# more aggressively. See also #8647 for more details.

• New GMP-specific binary (de)serialization primitives added to GHC.Integer.GMP.Internals:

  importIntegerFromByteArray
  importIntegerFromAddr
  exportIntegerToAddr
  exportIntegerToMutableByteArray
  sizeInBaseInteger
  

• New GMP-implemented number-theoretic operations added to GHC.Integer.GMP.Internals:

  gcdExtInteger
  nextPrimeInteger
  testPrimeInteger
  powInteger
  powModInteger
  powModSecInteger
  recipModInteger