Division of a small number by a larger one

[Kevin Ryde]

"Chris Saunders" <chris.saunders@sympatico.ca> writes:
>
> I have done this on Windows 2000
> and don't think that GMP likes this platform too well - it took
> me awhile to build a library that would work at all.

cygwin, djgpp and mingw are all supported and should work immediately.

> Part of the
> problem may be that my Eiffel compiler uses the Microsoft
> Visual C++ 6.0 compiler as a back end to build the "C" code
> that the Eiffel compiler generates.

A native build of gmp with ms c probably doesn't go through, mainly
because libtool doesn't know to use ".lib" instead of ".a".