On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote:
> That is a bit of a difficult one. gmp just provides just the interface of an > external library. > If we do it fo this one, we should do it for all the libraries for which we > provide headers. For marketing purposes, mostly. I speak about real Russian schools, where Pascal usage has fallen from about 80% to about 40% in recent few years, and continues to decline rapidly. In Russia, Pascal is Internet Explorer of programming languages :) > Is there not a native pascal solution for arbitrary precision math ? I seem > to remember that there are several ones floating around, maybe we should > simply include one of them. Writing high-quality arbitrary precision arithmetics is hard. The fact that Free Pascal uses GMP instead of homegrown solution has actually earned some praise. Of course, if good enough native solution does exist, I am all for including it. In short term, however, adding gmp.dll in 2.6.2 release will make it available at least for upcoming Russian Olympiad in Informatics. -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
