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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:227031 Archived-At: Tom Tromey wrote: > Any ideas on things that might be missing from this list? Seems OK for a first cut. > I wonder if Emacs should (provide 'bignum) when bignums are compiled in= . Not sure it's needed. It should be easy to tell via other means whether b= ignums=20 are present, e.g, (natnump (1+ most-positive-fixnum)) > I still haven't looked at using the mpn_ API. We need to do that before installing this in master, as Emacs must be in = charge=20 of bignum storage allocation. But it isn't needed for a first cut.