Hi Chris,

Would that be large number arithmetic? Of which we do very little, if any.
Or would that be large number presentation, which is usually a poor choice for 
displaying a byte array.

Thanx,
Jaap

Maynard, Chris wrote:
> Recently I have been working on a project for the Windows platform
> involving arithmetic with very large integers, larger than any C data
> type will allow for.  As a result, I have been using GMP
> (http://gmplib.org/).  I have found GMP to be very easy to work with.
> 
> Why do I mention GMP?  The following thread on the Wireshark developer's
> list might be one example of a situation where having support for very
> large numbers in Wireshark could be of value:
> http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200810/msg00251.html.  I
> did not search the list for more inquiries of this type, but I'm
> guessing there are probably more.  Perhaps Wireshark could be built with
> GMP to solve such problems?  GMP itself is LGPL, but I don't think that
> precludes it from Wireshark use ... or does it?
> 
> Anyway, I just thought I would mention it to see if there's any interest
> ...
> - Chris
> 

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