From: Olivier Schwander <olivier.schwander@chadok.info>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] convertion between OCaml Big_int and C
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:48:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101013144829.GB28174@pomerol.lix.polytechnique.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiknKCHowb3HQaLwJ62-+ZWhXWKg+uFQG7v3PJQ_@mail.gmail.com>
Le 13 Oct 2010 10:26, Jianzhou Zhao a écrit:
> I am not sure if this is a reasonable question. Does OCaml already
> have functions that do convertion between arbitrary-precision integers
> big_int in OCaml and any representation of large intergers in C? The
> implementation of big_int (otherlibs/num/big_int.*) uses nat
> (otherlibs/num/nat.*). Nat is a customized allocation (in C) as a list
> of native integers to represent arbitrary-precision. So converting
> big_int into C seems possible to me.
It seems you should have a look at the numerix library or at the OCaml
binding for GMP. I never used any of them so I cannot guaranty there are
really working (there are not a lot of references to them) but I think
they are more likely to be usable on both OCaml and C side.
Cheers,
Olivier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-13 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-13 14:26 Jianzhou Zhao
2010-10-13 14:48 ` Olivier Schwander [this message]
2010-10-13 16:01 ` [Caml-list] " Jianzhou Zhao
2010-10-13 16:11 ` Olivier Schwander
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