#601: Replace GMP
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Reporter: simonmar | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: _|_
Component: Compiler | Version: None
Severity: normal | Resolution: None
Keywords: | Difficulty: Difficult (1 week)
Testcase: N/A | Architecture: Unknown
Os: Unknown |
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Comment (by JimCrayne):
An interim approach that could be done is creating a binary compatible,
minimal, drop in replacement for GMP. People who statically link could
just implement enough functions to get their program working without
linker errors... eventually we'd have all of them done. I attached some
starting code as the file jmp.c (Credit to Joe Crayne for this code)
The way I envision this approach is that the initial emphasis would be on
just having something which works, getting it to be more efficient would
come later.
Note that this approach would mean that perhaps we can borrow test-suite
code from libgmp and that almost no changes would be necessary to GHC.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/601#comment:11>
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