Big integers

[sjrd]

Support for big integers is still missing.

At the very least, overflow with smallints should raise an exception, not return 0. (This part of the codebase was written when exceptions were not implemented yet!)

Then, support for big integers should be added, in a modular way. Actual big integers must not enter vm/main/! That would be a major dependency that we must avoid in the VM core codebase.

[ggutierrez]

If i recall correctly the new version of boost comes with a library that
offers this. We can use it and make boost host to depend on it. What do you
think?

On Sunday, February 17, 2013, Sébastien Doeraene wrote:

Support for big integers is still missing.

At the very least, overflow with smallints should raise an exception, not
return 0. (This part of the codebase was written when exceptions were not
implemented yet!)

Then, support for big integers should be added, in a modular way. Actual
big integers must not enter vm/main/! That would be a major dependency that
we must avoid in the VM core codebase.

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Gustavo Gutierrez

[sjrd]

Yep, I saw that, too. It might be a good idea. At least we could have big numbers without GMP on the boost host. And we can have a compilation option to switch to the GMP backend if so desired.