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Re: numerix portability: question



Hello,

I have access to some sparc machines. If you tell me what to do (some
examples / tests to compile?) I can test whether it runs or not on this
architecture (I cannot give you an account since those machines are
firewalled).

Regards,

Sam.



Le Mon, 10 May 2004 21:58:40 +0200 "Sylvain LE GALL"
<sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org> a écrit :

> On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:53:40PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I don't have a different arch at hand, so i cannot try it.
> 
> However, the buildd log show that it seems to build on most
> platform... ( doesn't imply that it runs, but it is the only hint i
> have )
> 
> Kind regard
> Sylvain Le Gall
> 
> 
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