bignums, gmp, bytestring, .. ?

[Peter Tanski]

Hi Jeremy,

On Nov 17, 2006, at 10:34 PM, Jeremy Shaw wrote:
> At Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:44:32 +0000,
> Neil Mitchell wrote
>
>> One advantage you probably haven't thought of is the size of the
>> binary. ...
>
> On a related note -- dropping the gmp requirement would also make it
> easier to port yhc to non-unix platforms.
>
> I have tried on a few occasions to compile the yhc runtime for PalmOS,
> but I can never get gmp built for PalmOS.

What is the problem building GMP for PalmOS?  According to the GMP  
install documentation, it supports ARM and Motorola's m68k  
processors, so you would not be using generic C code.  You are  
probably also using PRC-Tools, correct?

Cheers,
Pete