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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Require full GMP when building module support.
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> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:06:28 +0200
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, 
> 	Philipp Stephani <phst@google.com>
> 
> > > * configure.ac (HAVE_MODULES): Disable if full GMP is unavailable.
> >
> > Sounds too harsh to me.  After all, arbitrary-size numbers are needed
> > only in handful of situations.
> 
> I don't really see a good alternative.

Even not supporting bignums in modules at all sounds like a better
alternative to me.