Creating mpz_t from binary data

[Saju Pillai]

Marc Glisse wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Saju Pillai wrote:
> 
>> I am new to GMP. I receive a multi precision big endian integer 
>> represented in two's complement. I am on a little endian machine. How 
>> can I create a mpz_t using this data ?
>>
>> Will reversing the data bytes to create a little endian representation 
>> and calling mpz_set_str(rop, data, 2) work ?. Since this is binary 
>> data,  NULs may occur anywhere in the data. How do you suggest I 
>> proceed ?
>>
>> The mpint data type described at 
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4251#section-5 (SSH architecture rfc) is 
>> the data format I am dealing with.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> did you try http://gmplib.org/manual/Integer-Import-and-Export.html ?

Yes, this is what I am looking for. I happened to find mpz_import() just 
after sending out the query. Thanks for replying though.

-srp