Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support arbitrarily-long numbers with GNU MP.

[Pádraig Brady]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> "James Youngman" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Although libgmp itself has no further dependencies other than the C
>> library, this is still a large-ish extra dependency.   Should we also
>> introduce a --without-gmp option to configure?
> 
> Yes, particularly if it's added to 'expr'.
> 
>> I also remember Jim mentioning something about supporting large
>> numbers in expr.  That seems feasible, though based on the number of
>> discussions over the last year or two I would suggest that perhaps
>> using GMP in "seq" might also be a win; thoughts?
> 
> They'd both be wins, I'd say.
> 
> Also "test", right?  Though that's lower priority.

And possibly seq