Re: 28 bit ought to be enough for anyone.
Simon Josefsson <jas(a)pdc.kth.se> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
...
> > Would everything break if we link with GMP (a GNU multiple
precision
> > library which is quite efficient) for the integer stuff?
>
> That would be cool, but it's a project definitely more complex than
> just "linking with GMP".
Ok. I'll start by looking around for MP-libraries in elisp, or
writing
one from scratch, instead.
Still, native MP functionality in XEmacs would be very nice, and I
was
surprised it didn't already exist.
While it may look like it at a casual glance, XEmacs does not link
against every library in Known Space. :-)
If you're interested in adding this capability, take a look at
src/database.c which links against libdb and kin, and src/eldap.c
which links against libldap for examples.