Christian.Maeder: > I understand that gmp is needed for the certain libraries like the > Prelude with Double and Integer. > > But I do not understand why gmp is so deeply buried in the rts. > Are the basic types Int and Pointer not enough to write a compiler like ghc?
Integer is a good type :) However, its buried in the rts/distributed with the runtime, so that users may optionally use that version, rather than finding and installing their own external gmp package. On almost all platforms though, the distributed-with-ghc gmp is unused. -- Don _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
