GHCI/FFI/GMP/Me madness

Remi Turk buran at xs4all.nl
Tue Aug 10 11:09:13 EDT 2004


On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 01:09:03PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 10 August 2004 13:03, MR K P SCHUPKE wrote:
> 
> > Re GMP, Why not provide more GMP functions as primitives on the
> > Integer type, and avoid the need to call out to GMP via the FFI?
> 
> Show us the code! :-p

Or implement Integers via the FFI, and make it much easier to
provide more GMP functions as "primitives" (that is: simple
foreign imports)

Which is what I was trying, until I bumped into those weird
memory problems I had almost forgotten existed ;)

-- 
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