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numerix portability: question



Recently,
  on the ocaml mailing list, there has been a thread about different
Bignum implementation. Michel Quercia, numerix maintainer, stated that
numerix is not portable and works only on x86 platform:

  -- Numerix is my baby, so I'll let other users say if it has merits.
  Same schemeas GMP (choose a suitable algorithm depending on the sizes
  of the inputs), without the double-GC problem. The drawback is
  portability : works on x86/Linux.

I haven't tried to use numerix debian package, but I'm a bit puzzled by
the fact that numerix package is Architecture: any. So my question to
Sylvain, Mike and Medwards (latest changers of the package): have I
overlooked something or there is a big problem(TM) with debian numeric
debian package?

TIA,
Cheers.

-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy
zack@{cs.unibo.it,debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/
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