Re: gmp issues (long)

[Rob Browning]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> Possibly, but we would have to break into the scm_double_cell
> abstraction.  I.e., we should _not_ provide a function that creates an
> unintialized double cell, but we might add another function that
> creates a double cell and simultaneously initializes it as a mpz_t.

That's probably the easiest thing, though given the fact that we can't
just skip the initialization, for now it's probably best to just leave
any optimizations for later since there will probably also be times
where we'll want to

   SCM z = scm_double_cell (bignum_tag, 0, 0, 0);
   mpz_init_set (SCM_CELL_ADDR_1 (z), SCM_I_BIG_MPZ (x));

or

   mpz_init_set_si (SCM_CELL_ADDR_1 (z), x);

etc.

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