[perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

[Klaas-Jan Stol via RT]

On Sat Sep 08 10:39:31 2007, bernhard wrote:
> Just for the records, Andy Lester wrote on p2:
> 
> bignum.c seems to be entirely unused.  Everything builds just fine
> without it.  There are many lint errors in it, such as int functions
> returning with "return;" and no value.
> 
> Can we throw it away?  Move it somewhere out of the way? 
> 



When running make test on windows, the bigint tests are skipped, as my 
system doesn't have any bigint library installed. It seems that the 
bigint implementation is based on such a library.

What to do with this issue? Does anyone know of the status of bigint 
support in parrot?

thanks!

kjs