GNU GMP and MPI

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2008-03-21 20:58:58 +0900, June Co. wrote:
> I wish that such "packing" functions are officially supported in GMP  
> and MPFR.

What should the specification be? What about endianness?

> 2. use memcpy to pack like "pack_mpf" function in my BNCpack ->  
> http://na-inet.jp/na/bnc/bnc-0.6b.tar.gz .

I don't understand pack_mpz, for instance. If buf is provided by the
caller (i.e. is non-zero), how can he guess the buffer size? If not,
the buffer is allocated by the function, but how does the caller know
its address after the call (since pack_mpz doesn't return any value)?

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