Re: Using GMP for BigIntegers.

["Mark J. Roberts" <mjr at statesmean dot com>]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Mark J. Roberts wrote:

> On 30 Jan 2001, Per Bothner wrote:
>
> > > Anyway, this (the former) approach is the one I'm going to take.
> >
> > Cool.
>
> You use Java's unsigned right shift operator (>>> and >>>=) about 12 times
> in your code. How should I translate this to C++?

I read I have to declare it as unsigned, like:

unsigned(var) >>= 10;

It compiles, but is it right?

> Also,
>
> rshift (jintArray idest, jintArray ix, jint x_start, jint len, jint count)
>
> and
>
> lshift (jintArray idest, jint d_offset, jintArray ix, jint len, jint count)
>
> don't have GMP counterparts AFAIK.

And

udiv_qrnnd (jlong N, jint D)

doesn't seem to be available either: the comment says it was copied from
GMP 2.0--maybe it's obsolete. Is there a substitute?


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Mark Roberts
mjr@statesmean.com