Re: functions returning int with 'l' protocodes.

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:45:02PM -0700, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:13:54AM +0200, Karim BELABAS wrote:
> > > > FIx involves either add a new letter code for integers, or
> > > > `upgrade' all functions return int to long.
> > > > The second option seems better.
> > >
> > > So Karim, what do you prefer ?
> > 
> > The whole point of the install() machinery is to be able to include as many
> > external routines as possible without recompiling the library. Since there's
> > no reason to forbid 'int' return types, I'd rather add a new parser code. And
> > introduce RET_INT, RET_LONG, RET_VOID as per your patch proposal.

While I do not like PARI code to behave differently on 32bit/64bit,
I agree that adding support for int is desirable.

> Can you decide on the letter, so that I can upgrade Math::Pari?
Would 'i' be OK for every one ?

Cheers,
Bill