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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support arbitrarily-long numbers with GNU MP.
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support arbitrarily-long numbers with GNU MP. |
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Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:32:04 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
"James Youngman" <address@hidden> writes:
> Although libgmp itself has no further dependencies other than the C
> library, this is still a large-ish extra dependency. Should we also
> introduce a --without-gmp option to configure?
Yes, particularly if it's added to 'expr'.
> I also remember Jim mentioning something about supporting large
> numbers in expr. That seems feasible, though based on the number of
> discussions over the last year or two I would suggest that perhaps
> using GMP in "seq" might also be a win; thoughts?
They'd both be wins, I'd say.
Also "test", right? Though that's lower priority.