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 _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users