[Scilab-Dev] Gmp in scilab revisited.

[Collette Yann]

Good example.
With a pointer stored in a structure: it's the mess.
With a "binary array" stored in a mlist of this kind: 
mlist(['gmplist','array'],[])
it should be better. The memory is managed by scilab, in the array, you 
always allocate a multiple of typeof(double) so as to store your gmp number.
You have to write 2 functions: one to translate a gmp struct into an 
array of double and another to translate an array of double into gmp struct.


What was your strategy ? Do you store gmp numbers into strings ?

YC

Jonathan Blanchard a écrit :
> I see what you mean I think. But what happen when it get destroyed.
> Let say for example the following code.
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> a = gmpinit(123);
> b = gmpinit(234);
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> a = gmpmul(a,b);
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> In this code the initial variable 'a' get cleared but if memory was
> allocated out of the Scilab stack it won't be freed.
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> Jonathan Blanchard
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