Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:23, Will Coleda wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM, chromatic wrote: >> On Thursday 05 February 2009 08:57:18 jerry gay wrote: >> >>> we will roll our own bignum, and give users the ability to use gmp or >>> another external library at configure time. >> >> That sou

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread Will Coleda
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM, chromatic wrote: > On Thursday 05 February 2009 08:57:18 jerry gay wrote: > >> we will roll our own bignum, and give users the ability to use gmp or >> another external library at configure time. > > That sounds like a fantastic recipe for hard-to-debug configuratio

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 05 February 2009 08:57:18 jerry gay wrote: > we will roll our own bignum, and give users the ability to use gmp or > another external library at configure time. That sounds like a fantastic recipe for hard-to-debug configuration problems and all of the joys of fixing copious amounts

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:45, Andrew Whitworth via RT wrote: > On Thu Feb 05 08:40:47 2009, particle wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:26, Andrew Whitworth via RT >> wrote: >> > 1) Are we going to be relying on libraries to handle our BigInt/BigNum >> > implementations, or are we intending to r

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:26, Andrew Whitworth via RT wrote: > 1) Are we going to be relying on libraries to handle our BigInt/BigNum > implementations, or are we intending to roll our own? we can't rely on external libraries, whether for bignum, unicode, gc, or anything else. we can detect and u

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2008-12-01 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 06:23:31AM -0800, Klaas-Jan Stol via RT wrote: > On Sat Sep 08 10:39:31 2007, bernhard wrote: > > Just for the records, Andy Lester wrote on p2: > > > > bignum.c seems to be entirely unused. Everything builds just fine > > without it. There are many lint errors in it, suc

[perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2005-06-18 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer # Please include the string: [perl #36330] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=36330 > The current state of big numbers and extended decimal arithmetic in Parrot is