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

[Andrew Whitworth via RT]

On Thu Feb 05 11:12:52 2009, particle wrote:
> silly me. i keep getting caught up in "old-think" lately. of course,
> we've changed direction on this point, and the "new-think" is that we
> do plan on relying on external libraries where it makes sense. we need
> sane overflow semantics for our numeric pmcs if gmp isn't found, and
> sane exceptions for unicode operations if icu isn't available.
> 
> a big warning in the configure output if icu or gmp isn't found would
> certainly be a nice addition, so users know what they're in store for
> if they don't have the (all but)? required external libraries
> installed.

Okay, now that we are all thoroughly confused, this brings me back to a
question I wondered about previously: Can we delete src/bignum.c since
we aren't currently using and we are planning to use GMP for our big num
stuff in the future? The BigNum PMC, once we have it, can implement it's
own sane defaults internally.

-- 
Andrew Whitworth
a.k.a Whiteknight