Bill Allombert on Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:49:26 +0100 |
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built-in functions in GP |
Hello PARI-dev, some functions are still built-in the GP program: allocatemem, default, extern, input, quit, read, system, whatnow Either they should be move to libpari, or an equivalent pari function need to be provided and added in the description: Also the semantic might be different for stand-alone programs and GP installed() plug-in which can be problematic. 1) extern,system,read: should really be in libpari. 2) default: should be in libpari, some default are only relevant to GP. 3) allocatemem: allocatemem0 is called but allocatemoremem() is available. Probably using allocatemoremem() with gp2c-run will crash GP, however. 4) quit: a libpari way to shutdown pari should be provided and added to the library. That was already discussed in <http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/archives/pari-users-0301/msg00020.html>. With gp2c-run this is likely to crash PARI. 5) input: require input support which is not present in libpari. 6) whatnow: probably don't worth the trouble. It is a line-editing command and should be handled as such. Probably the nicest way to fix 3,4,5) is to have default implementation of these functions in libpari and provide a way for the stand-alone program (including GP) to override them. Cheers, Bill.