what is GMPXX, and is it ever used in Windows?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi CR20!

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 11:06 AM CR20 <mez283em23e2ze2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>

> What is GMPXX?  I'm finding little if any literature on it on the
> internet.

```
[shlomif at localhost ~]$ locate -i -e --regex '^/usr/.*gmpxx'
/usr/include/gmpxx.h
/usr/lib64/libgmpxx.so
/usr/lib64/libgmpxx.so.4
/usr/lib64/libgmpxx.so.4.6.0
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/gmpxx.pc
[shlomif at localhost ~]$ head /usr/include/gmpxx.h
/* gmpxx.h -- C++ class wrapper for GMP types.  -*- C++ -*-

Copyright 2001-2003, 2006, 2008, 2011-2015, 2018 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.

This file is part of the GNU MP Library.

The GNU MP Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of either:
```

( This is on fedora linux 33 x86-64 beta. )

GMPXX is a library providing a C++ wrapper for the GNU MP library (
https://gmplib.org/ ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_MP ) which has
a C-compatible API. There are other bindings listed here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_MP#Language_bindings

HTH, -- Shlomi

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