John Machin wrote: > So why don't you get a freely available "bignum" package, throw away > the bits you don' t want, and just compile it and use it, instead of > writing your own bug-ridden (see below) routines? Oh yeah, the bignum > package might use "long" and you think that you don't have access to > 32-bit longs in the C compiler for the 8-bit device that you mistook > for an arm but then said is an Smc8831 [Google can't find it] with a > CPU that you think is a SC88 [but the manual whose URL you gave is for > an S1C88] ... >
Thanks for the fixes - still looking at it. You are correct, all "bignum" packages I found needed 32 bits. Yes I still see from my documentation that there is no "long" handled by my compiler. I did make a mistake on the CPU (and I really do not care what it is) - you wanted some ref (I still do not see why) and I googled S1C88 and sent you a link as that is the name of the compiler's directory. The reason I first came here was to not have to write my "... own bug-ridden ..." (how nice) ... I have plenty of other bugs to write first. > *** WHAT HAPPENS IF arg1 > arg2? cmp is called first. Regards, Philippe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list