I'm not sure what you mean by "adopted in the tree", we are not bundling gmp with the Pike distributions.
As far as I can remember, the mpn functions in gmp can be used in a way that handles out-of-memory conditions, but the higher level functions (mpz/mpf/mpq) can not. It would be possible to rewrite the Pike glue to use mpn functions only, but that would mean reimplenting a lot of stuff that is already in gmp, and be a lot of work which nobody has been particularly interrested in doing so far.
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)
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2003-03-21 21:15: Subject: Re: Do we have a floatingpoint bug?
Right, it seems as such. Point being, perhaps code to be adopted in the tree shouldn't have a known crash bug (if there are similar-quality code that doesn't cause a crash).
/ David Hedbor