From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 19:43:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <83bmecy6fx.fsf@gnu.org> <0d3175d8-d996-651e-b221-71978bde3a65@cs.ucla.edu> <87tvpdnzgy.fsf@tromey.com> <4c2a814f-c254-29e5-39cf-11b5f2e5c9c8@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531006928 1215 195.159.176.226 (7 Jul 2018 23:42:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 23:42:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tom@tromey.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 08 01:42:04 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fbwq3-00006X-Bd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 01:42:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35210 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbws8-0000lG-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2018 19:44:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60359) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbwrV-0000kz-7R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2018 19:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbwrU-00011H-B9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2018 19:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59098) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbwrB-0000tF-Li; Sat, 07 Jul 2018 19:43:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fbwrB-0000fE-8P; Sat, 07 Jul 2018 19:43:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4c2a814f-c254-29e5-39cf-11b5f2e5c9c8@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 6 Jul 2018 14:00:40 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227083 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Yes, that function should now return only fixnums and bignums (assuming GMP is > available). In what situations would GMP not be available? Doesn't it run on all our target platforms? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)