Re: remove --bignum from 'factor'

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Here's a patch to remove the --bignum and --no-bignum options from
> 'factor'.  The case for removing --bignum isn't as strong as that for
> 'expr', but still, it seems to me that these options are not needed and
> complicate the documentation unnecessarily.
>
>
> Remove --bignum and --no-bignum from 'factor'.
>
> * doc/coreutils.texi (factor invocation): Remove --bignum, --no-bignum.
> * src/factor.c (algorithm, ALGORITHM_CHOICE, USE_BIGNUM, NO_USE_BIGNUM):
> Remove; all uses removed.
> (extract_factors_multi): Remove, replacing with....
> (print_factors_multi): New function, with signature similar to that
> of new signature of print_factors_single.
> (print_factors_single): Migrate checking code to caller.
> (print_factors): Use GMP if it's available; don't bother asking user.
> Improve accuracy of check for "large" numbers.
> (long_options, main): Remove support for --bignum.

Thanks, Paul!
I've pushed that.