MPIR lib

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:36:19 -0400, Michel Fortin  
<michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:

> On 2010-06-28 16:22:47 -0400, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>  
> said:
>
>> bearophile wrote:
>>> This is derived from the GNU multiprecision libs:
>>> http://www.mpir.org/
>>> It has LGPL licence, is this usable as implementation of D2 bigint?
>>  No, LGPL is not a Boost compatible license. It is considerably more  
>> restrictive.
>
> I've used MAPM in the past, it worked well for what I did. The license  
> is much less restrictive, but is still a little more than boost's. But  
> perhaps there's a chance someone can convince the author to make it  
> boost-compatible. It can do arbitrary precision ints and floats.
>
> http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ringx004/mapm-main.html
>

What's wrong with d2's bigint that Don has written?

-Steve