[Pythonmac-SIG] No arbitrary precison math on Mac-tel say it ain't so!

[Daniel Lord]

The analog of a single gene pool in nature has come to pass for  
arbitrary precison math (APM) for OS X (native not Python).
GMP is 'it' for APM as far as I can tell unless I want to write my own.
And GMP doesn't compile on Mac-tel and won't for some time:

The current release is 4.2, released 2006-03-26. It fixes all bugs  
found in 4.1.4, as well as several portability problems. It also adds  
several new features. Note that we chose not to work around all new  
GCC bugs in this release. Never forget to do a make check after  
building the library to make likely it was not miscompiled!

Issues with GMP 4.2:

Miscompilation on several platforms using several different  
compilers. Remember to run make check!
GMP does not build on MacInteltoch machines. Since Apple uses their  
own, creative assembly syntax, it is not trivial to fix this.
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