Re: [Ecls-list] Request to mailing list Ecls-list rejected

2010-08-17 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gabriel Dos Reis writes: [...] | Index: big.d | === | RCS file: /cvsroot/ecls/ecl/src/c/big.d,v | retrieving revision 1.43 | diff -p -r1.43 big.d | *** big.d 1 Feb 2010 13:55:16 - 1.43 | --- big.d 13 Aug 2010 09:17

Re: [Ecls-list] Request to mailing list Ecls-list rejected

2010-08-13 Thread Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > 2. GMP offers low-level mpn_xxx functions that could be used to > initialize mpz objects from fixnum values. That would avoid > the unstructured code you are alluding to. Is that something > you would contemplate? > I do

Re: [Ecls-list] Request to mailing list Ecls-list rejected

2010-08-13 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll writes: | On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | | So, I am wondering why ECL is making that distinction?  That is, why does | ECL need to distinguish 'long' from ECL_FIXNUM_TYPE?  Should not | the distinction between GMP_LIMB_BITS vs. FI

Re: [Ecls-list] Request to mailing list Ecls-list rejected

2010-08-13 Thread Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > So, I am wondering why ECL is making that distinction? That is, why does > ECL need to distinguish 'long' from ECL_FIXNUM_TYPE? Should not > the distinction between GMP_LIMB_BITS vs. FIXNUM_BITS be sufficient? > Gabriel, I think you h

Re: [Ecls-list] Request to mailing list Ecls-list rejected

2010-08-13 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
ecls-list-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net writes: | "Gabriel, your message was too large for the mailing list, but it was | automatically forwarded to me this morning. I will commut the changes | to number.h and have a look at the rest. Thanks a lot for your help. | | Juanjo" Hi Juanjo, After hav