From: "shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)" <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2012-11-02T02:05:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:48715] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6083] Hide a Bignum definition


Issue #6083 has been updated by shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe).


+1 for next major.

No one is against this basic concept of hiding Bignums, meseems.  It's just a bad timing for us.
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Feature #6083: Hide a Bignum definition
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6083#change-32173

Author: ko1 (Koichi Sasada)
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: 
Target version: Next Major


Now, the struct RBignum which is a definition of Bignum in C is located in include/ruby/ruby.h.  It means we can't change implementation of Bignum.  For example, using GMP as Bignum representation.

I propose to move the struct RBignum definition from include/ruby/ruby.h to bignum.c.  I believe no one use struct RBignum directly (except core).

It has possibility to break binary compatibility.




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