17.4.13.2 GMP and MPFR Version Information

The API also includes information about the versions of GMP and MPFR with which the running gawk was compiled (if any). They are included in the API struct as read-only constant integers:

api->gmp_major_version

The major version of the GMP library used to compile gawk.

api->gmp_minor_version

The minor version of the GMP library used to compile gawk.

api->mpfr_major_version

The major version of the MPFR library used to compile gawk.

api->mpfr_minor_version

The minor version of the MPFR library used to compile gawk.

These fields are set to zero if gawk was compiled without MPFR support.

You can check if the versions of MPFR and GMP that you are using match those of gawk with the following macro:

check_mpfr_version(extension)

The extension is the extension id passed to all the other macros and functions defined in gawkapi.h. If you have not included the <mpfr.h> header file, then this macro will be defined to do nothing.

If you have included that file, then this macro compares the MPFR and GMP major and minor versions against those of the library you are compiling against. If your libraries are newer than gawk’s, it produces a fatal error message.

The dl_load_func() macro (see section Boilerplate Code) calls check_mpfr_version().