On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 12:11:37PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > Let give a try. I am dealing with the libgap-sage package [1]. > > Thanks for the extensive details. > > > To begin with, GAP is a Computer Algebra System (CAS). > > From an upstream point of view, libgap is not part of GAP itself. > > libgap is rather a library wrapper for gap meant to get a better > > access to the GAP kernel and to be used within Sage, which is a kind > > a umbrella for multiple CAS (GAP, Singular, and a myriad of > > scientific oriented software packages). > > Note that, for now at least, GAP itself does not furnish any library; hence > > libgap. > > The libgap project seems like a workaround for this bug in GAP?
This is not a bug in GAP. GAP has its own language and does not provide a C interface. It also uses its own memory manager which is not compatible with malloc. Designing a library implies defining an API and an ABI, something that has not been formalized for libgap. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
