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Jim Blandy writes: > > Okay. I think, in most cases, people just want a long they can frob, > and want the type error raised for them by default. However, people > who do want to take the trouble should certainly be able to, so we > need some function for this. > > There may even be one; I certainly don't know the bignum code inside > and out. > > I don't know how easy bignums are to manipulate from C code. By > Aubrey's reputation, the primitives present are probably exactly the > right ones for SCM's purposes, but not what you'd expect for other > purposes. > Would an interface to the gmp library help? Klaus Schilling