Re: Nearly finished (re)integrating GMP for bignums.

[Marius Vollmer]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> One thing I note is that it looks like the code presumes
> that an INUM will always fit into a 32bit integer.  Do we guarantee
> that, or is there the possibility we might allow 64bit inums?  I
> wasn't sure which guarantees we planned to make.

Aren't we already using 64 bits for scm_t_bits on some platforms (such
as the Alpha and IA64)?  Even if we don't, code should use
SIZEOF_SCM_T_BITS, etc.

> With respect to random.c, we have a pluggable random number system,
> and ATM the bignum randoms are computed using the
> "get_32_random_bits()" function provided by the random state object.
> However GMP has its own random number generators, including ones for
> bignums.  Any thoughts on how we should handle this?

I think we should use the GMP generators unless they are not as good
as ours.  But I doubt that.

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