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[John Machin]

Philippe Martin wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
>
> > So why don't you get a freely available "bignum" package, throw away
> > the bits you don' t want, and just compile it and use it, instead of
> > writing your own bug-ridden (see below) routines? Oh yeah, the bignum
> > package might use "long" and you think that you don't have access to
> > 32-bit longs in the C compiler for the 8-bit device that you mistook
> > for an arm but then said is an Smc8831 [Google can't find it] with a
> > CPU that you think is a SC88 [but the manual whose URL you gave is for
> > an S1C88] ...
> >
>
> Thanks for the fixes - still looking at it.
>
> You are correct, all "bignum" packages I found needed 32 bits.
>
> Yes I still see from my documentation that there is no "long" handled by my
> compiler.

Have you actually tried it? Do you mean it barfs on the word "long"
[meaning that it's not an ANSI-compliant C compiler], or that "long" is
only 16 bits?

>
> I did make a mistake on the CPU (and I really do not care what it is) - you
> wanted some ref (I still do not see why)

because (1) [like I said before] gcc appears to be able to generate
code for a vast number of different CPUs (2) because I find it very
difficult to believe that a C compiler for the CPU on a device in
current use won't support 32-bit longs -- and so far you have presented
no credible evidence to the contrary

>  and I googled S1C88 and sent you a
> link as that is the name of the compiler's directory.

and is that or is it not the correct link for the documentation for the
compiler that you are using??????

>
> The reason I first came here was to not have to write my "... own
> bug-ridden ..." (how nice) ... I have plenty of other bugs to write first.
>