[Python-3000] C API for ints and strings

[Greg Ewing]

Jim Jewett wrote:
> It has now come to the point where a
> compiler should be assumed to miscompile GMP.
> ...
> It doesn't work on the Intel Macintoshes, and the workarounds are so
> ugly that they won't be applied to the trunk.

Sounds like it's been optimised for speed over portability
in a really extreme way. I wouldn't go anywhere near code
like that.

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Greg