Re: Bad deprecation warnings in numbers.c

[Rob Browning]

Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:

> IMO, people should not use any of these functions at all.  We should
> try to remove their use from other places within guile as well.  The
> reason is, that these functions depend on the implementation of the
> bignums, which should be considered the secret knowledge of the
> number implementation.  It is, btw., likely to change in the not too
> far future, if for example we manage the switch to the GNU mp
> library.

FWIW I've got GMP bignum's working here :> Guile passes make check,
but I've still got a lot of FIXMEs and #warnings to repair.

IMO, scm_i_mkbig probably shouldn't be used by user code and shouldn't
even be in numbers.h unless (as is the case ATM) other libguile code
needs to call it.  (The only way around that I can think of would be
go to a "public/private" header arrangement.)

However, a function like 

  void scm_num2mpz(mpz_t dest, SCM src);

(or similar) might not be a bad idea.  We could continue to provide it
in libguile or in a helper lib indefinitely, no matter what our
internal representation is.

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Rob Browning
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