PARI requires (required?) sizeof(mp_limb_t)==sizeof(void*), which is not guaranteed and not enforceable by PARI (as it's up to GMP to decide what exactly an mp_limb_t is).
On 7 October 2015 at 19:03, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 18:37:41 UTC+2, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 6:35:36 PM UTC+2, bluescarni wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> * PARI which assumes that sizeof(long) == sizeof(void*), there is an >>>>> experimental branch fixing this: >>>>> http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/archives/pari-dev-1505/msg00021.html >>>>> >>>> >>>> I am using Pari (not GP) today on Windows 64. It was minimal effort on >>>> my part to do so. I am not using a special branch. >>>> >>> >>> This was a problem for the x32 architecture as well. See, e.g., here: >>> >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724320 >>> >>> Glad that the PARI devs fixed this eventually. >>> >> It was not fixed by an "actual" PARI dev, but what's important is that >> some code is now publicly available. >> > > I read through that entire Debian issue and still haven't got a clue what > the issue was. There seems to have been a lot of arguing there about whose > fault this actually was. None of these people is a dummy, so I don't > understand why they couldn't figure it out. > > Anyway, x32 is not something I'm interested in supporting. It's great that > GMP does, and some other software does, and Flint is moving towards > supporting it. But it's not a priority. > > Bill. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
