Ilya Zakharevich on Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:53:02 -0500


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Re: brutcopy and gcopy_av


On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:07:59PM +0100, Karim BELABAS wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 01:14:33PM +0100, Karim BELABAS wrote:
> > > What exactly do you need it for, that gclone() does not provide ?  [this will
> > > help me decide the "final" form of the public interface...]
> >
> > Does gclone() move things from the heap to the stack?  Then probably
> > gcopy_av() is not needed indeed.
> 
> In PARI technobabble, it's exactly the other way round:

This is what I expected...  Then I do not see how it may
substitute gcopy_av().

Ilya