GMP (GNU multiple precision) wrapper for D?

[Michael Kiermaier]

Don Clugston Wrote:

> Michael Kiermaier wrote:
> > Matthias Walter Wrote:
> > 
> >> Don Clugston Wrote:
> >>
> >>> Michael Kiermaier wrote:
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I like D more and more.
> >>>>
> >>>> However, one thing I am missing up to now is a D wrapper for GMP (GNU multiple precision library), like the existing C++ wrapper classes.
> >>>>
> >>>> Searching for "D programming gmp" with google gives some pages which link to this homepage:
> >>>> http://home.comcast.net/~benhinkle/
> >>>>
> >>>> But I cannot find a D wrapper there.
> >>> I found I have a copy of it. It'll need work to make it compile with recent DMD.
> >>> But it's very old, and D has improved a lot since then. You might be better just 
> >>> running htod or bcd over the gmp headers.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Did anyone take the time and port it? If not, I would start a project at dsource.org and do it. What about Ben Hinkle's port? Is it active, can one get his sources somewhere?
> >>
> >> AFAICS, for a port, one would not need to use template metaprogramming like the original authors did in the original gmpxx headers, because classes in D are by reference. Am I right there? At least, for the following examples, there were no unnecessary temporaries:
> >>
> >> a = b + c; // constructor of mpz_class was called once, so temporary was assigned directly to the new reference a, without copying data.
> >> a = (b+c) / (d+e); // constructor was called three times, for (b+c), for (d+e) and for the result.
> >>
> >> Any ideas or corrections?
> >>
> >> best regards
> >> Matthias Walter
> > 
> > I don't believe that anyone started a new GMP project for D up to now.
> > Don Clugston (dac at nospam.com.au) claimed to have a copy of the old code of Ben Hincle. You could try to contact him directly.
> > 
> > I would be very happy to see a working GMP wrapper class for D.
> > 
> > ~michael
> 
> OK, here's Ben Hinkle's sources. But as I said, I don't think it's much use.
> BTW, that's not my real email address.
> -Don.

Seems that I was totally blind when I copy-and-pasted your email address...

~michael