[Pkg-parrot-devel] Bug#724450: bigint library in parrot

[Zefram]

Package: parrot-minimal
Version: 4.0.0-3
Severity: wishlist

Parrot can be compiled with a built-in bigint facility.  The Debian Parrot
build has not.  It would be convenient if it did have bigint support.

Test case:

$ cat t6.pir
.sub main :main
        $P0 = new "Integer"
        $P0 = 1234567890123456789
        $P1 = $P0 * $P0
        say $P1
.end
$ parrot t6.pir
no bigint lib loaded
current instr.: 'main' pc 6 (t6.pir:4)
$ ./from_github/parrot t6.pir
1524157875323883675019051998750190521

-zefram