[LLVMdev] LLVM and GMP

[someguy]

Oh. I see. That way the bigints don't need a representation in llvm IR... neat.

Sorry for the misdirecton!

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:20 PM, someguy wrote:
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>> I could be wrong, but I think that you may need to add a 'big-integer'
>> intrinsic type to llvm.
>
> No, please don't.  GMP is just another library like libc, your front-
> end should just generate calls into it like any other library.  This
> is similar to how we handle threading and many other "language
> features".
>
> -Chris
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