Big Numbers for Constants about odin

[ratchetfreak]

BigNum as a language feature is going to need RAII semantics (destructors and copy/move semantics). As just about all standard implementations will allocate auxiliary memory that needs to be cleaned up.

Though if you just want something that works for compile-time constant folding then something like gmp (licenced under LGPL v3) would work. It does both integer and floating point math.

[gingerBill]

Sorry for the confusion but I do not want this to be a run time feature but rather a compile time feature for the constant system. I want numbers to just work as number.

gmp might be a good option so I might have to consider it.

[Kelimion]

http://www.libtom.net/LibTomMath/ is also a good alternative. Dual licensed as public domain / WTFPL.

[gingerBill]

This has been implemented with the new custom BigInt library. As the name suggests, only integers are supported, no BigFloat yet.