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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>,
	Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>,
	guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: IEEE Inf and NaN support for numbers.c
Date: 22 Mar 2002 09:18:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34rj9x8o4.fsf@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vgbp2zaf.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>

>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:

    Rob> On a related note, I've been playing around here with replacing our
    Rob> bignum support with gmp (and noticing some bugs that need fixing along
    Rob> the way).  The integration seems fairly easy (I've converted a lot of
    Rob> the code in an very experimental tree), but I was wondering if you had
    Rob> any thoughts on that front.

Technical issues aside (where I don't know enough to comment), I
believe that using gmp has been the intended plan for a couple of
years.

There was a bit of a skirmish on the subject of mismatched licenses
(Guile vs. GMP), but I remember it turning out to be a non-issue.

        Neil


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-22  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <15494.39950.119995.223196@segfault.bogus.domain>
2002-03-14 20:59 ` IEEE Inf and NaN support for numbers.c Marius Vollmer
2002-03-21 21:16   ` John W. Eaton
2002-03-22  0:59     ` Rob Browning
2002-03-22  9:18       ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2002-04-24 19:11     ` Marius Vollmer
2002-04-24 21:07       ` John W. Eaton
2002-04-24 22:31         ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-06 22:39           ` Marius Vollmer
2002-05-15  5:36             ` John W. Eaton
2002-05-15 19:27               ` Marius Vollmer
2002-04-24 22:51         ` Rob Browning

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