Re: Welcoming Olivier as new committer

Jonas Hahnfeld via "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:27:42 +0100
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On Tue, 2026-03-03 at 19:15 +0100, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Jonas Hahnfeld writes:
>=20
> > > and never got merged.  So we've just been patching Guile ourselves (t=
o
> > > create Windows binaries for Dezyne, for example).  Recently, Jonas
> > > Hahnfeld managed to split that patch up in several bits, make fixes f=
or
> > > lightening, and get it merged; lovely!
> >=20
> > I would like to clarify that I *did not* split up the patch because it
> > was entirely based on the concept of requiring and patching mini-gmp.
> > The merged changes work with upstream interfaces of GMP, at the expense
> > of a slightly slower conversion in case the value at run-time falls
> > between 2**32 and 2**64 and does not fit into long.
>=20
> Ah sorry, I totally missed that.  But your patch still adheres to the
> requirement of having identical .go files for any 64-bit system, right?

Yes, but it can be dealt with on the Guile side.

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