Re: ada is getting spanked :(

[Gautier <gautier@fakeaddress.nil>]

jtg:

> Some time ago I started to implement it. However, the problem requires
> usage of big integers, which are not supported by Ada.

Sure they are! Only on this page you have 5 flavours of them:
  http://www.chez.com/bignumber/
A quick look on Google seems to give some more.

> However, gcc has very fast library (gmp), which can be used in c and c++
> programs just by inserting "# include <gmp.h>" into a program file and
> "-lgmp" into a compiler command-line.
> Is there any standard Ada binding to the GMP library? By "standard
> binding" I mean a binding included in gnat/gcc.

The AdaGMP bindings seem to be no more available, however, you can give
a try with my package which doesn't even require dynamic allocation:

  http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/gdm/gsoft.htm#mathpaqs

see the mathpaqs.zip archive, mupreint.ad* files.
There are also a test and a RSA cypher using it.

HTH
Gautier
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