Hello, On Thursday 17 January 2008 17:57, Christian Maeder wrote:

I understand that gmp is needed for the certain libraries like the Prelude with Double and Integer.

But I do not understand why gmp is so deeply buried in the rts. Are the basic types Int and Pointer not enough to write a compiler like ghc?

You probably know about this, but just to make sure: Did you take a look at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes?

Cheers Christian ...

Best regards Thorkil