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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support arbitrarily-long numbers with GNU MP.
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support arbitrarily-long numbers with GNU MP. |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:36:12 +0200 |
Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Support arbitrarily-long numbers with GNU MP.
>>> * m4/gmp.m4: New file; adds cu_GMP, which detects GNU MP.
>>> * configure.ac: Use cu_GMP.
>>> * src/Makefile.am: Link factor against libgmp if available.
>>> * src/factor.c: Use GNU MP if it is available.
>>> (emit_factor, emit_ul_factor, factor_using_division,
>>> factor_using_pollard_rho, extract_factors_multi,
>>> sort_and_print_factors, free_factors): new functions
>>> for the arbitrary-precision implementation, taken from an example
>>> in GNU MP.
>>> (factor_wheel): Renamed; was called factor.
>>> (print_factors_single): Renamed; was called print_factors.
>>> (print_factors): New function, chooses between the single- and
>>> arbitrary-precision algorithms according to availability of GNU MP
>>> and the length of the number to be factored.
>>> (usage, main): New options --use-mp and --nouse-mp.
>>
>> What do you think of --mp and --no-mp instead?
>
> How about --bignum instead? IMHO this is more descriptive.
I prefer --bignum, too. Thanks.