From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: IEEE Inf and NaN support for numbers.c Date: 22 Mar 2002 09:18:19 +0000 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <15494.39950.119995.223196@segfault.bogus.domain> <87lmcuyifu.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <15514.19909.408835.204209@segfault.bogus.domain> <87vgbp2zaf.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016789269 906 127.0.0.1 (22 Mar 2002 09:27:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "John W. Eaton" , Marius Vollmer , guile-devel Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16oLKt-0000EV-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:27:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16oLKF-0001fv-00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 04:27:07 -0500 Original-Received: from delysid.gnu.org ([158.121.106.20]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16oLJy-0001fI-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 04:26:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.21] helo=s1.uklinux.net) by delysid.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #2) id 16oLJx-000155-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 04:26:49 -0500 Original-Received: from portalet.ossau.uklinux.net (IDENT:root@ppp-3b-137.3com.telinco.net [212.159.133.137]) by s1.uklinux.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2M9LT111914; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:21:29 GMT Original-Received: from laruns.ossau.uklinux.net.ossau.uklinux.net (neil@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net [192.168.1.3]) by portalet.ossau.uklinux.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA03574; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:22:16 GMT Original-To: Rob Browning In-Reply-To: <87vgbp2zaf.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:150 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:150 >>>>> "Rob" == Rob Browning 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 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel