Re: gmp issues (long)

[Kevin Ryde]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
>
> 'mpz_init' is probably very simple and maybe just initializing it with
> zeros is all it takes.  Maybe the compiler can inline both
> scm_double_cell and mpz_init and optimize the redundant stores away.

Alas mpz_init is a function, it allocates an initial block of memory
for the data.

>    mpz_t n = MPZ_INITIALIZER;

That suggestion had been floated another time, but unfortunately it's
not feasible in the current implementation.  It's a nice enough idea,
and it's on the gmp tasks list to give more thought to, but actually
doing anything about it is probably a distance away.