gmp

[Thorkil Naur]

Hello,

On Thursday 17 January 2008 17:57, Christian Maeder wrote:
> I understand that gmp is needed for the certain libraries like the
> Prelude with Double and Integer.
> 
> But I do not understand why gmp is so deeply buried in the rts.
> Are the basic types Int and Pointer not enough to write a compiler like ghc?

You probably know about this, but just to make sure: Did you take a look at 
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes?

> 
> Cheers Christian
> ...

Best regards
Thorkil