#9281: Rewrite `integer-gmp` to use only non-allocating GMP functions -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: hvr | Owner: hvr Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.10.1 Component: libraries (other) | Version: Keywords: integer-gmp | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- After some promising results with a proof-of-concept implementation, I'm optimistic we can rewrite `integer-gmp` to use only non-allocating GMP lib functions without suffering from serious regressions. If successful, this would - allow to avoid the custom GMP allocator hack, and thus - avoid issues when linking against other C libraries using GMP, - simplify code, as we would perform all heap allocations in Haskell code (and never inside Cmm/C code as its done now), - and finally maybe even remove a few more superfluous temporary heap allocations. This rewrite can be done incrementally. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9281 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler