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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add module functions to convert from and to big integers


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add module functions to convert from and to big integers.
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:00:08 -0700
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On 4/24/19 2:19 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> I'd definitely hope so, otherwise we should reconsider the mini-gmp
> support. Unfortunately I didn't find any statement about ABI
> compatibility of mini-gmp.h.

There will be a compatibility problem if a module assumes functionality
of full GMP that mini-gmp does not provide, e.g., NAILS != 0. The full
list of functionality missing in mini-gmp is documented in the
gmp/mini-gmp/README. It's a short list. It would probably help to
mention this issue in our module documentation.

Also, the gmp.h and mini-gmp.h ABIs are incompatible on a few old Cray
machines. I don't think we need to worry about this nowadays.




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