ghc-bignum

GHC BigNum library

LTS Haskell 24.24:1.3
Stackage Nightly 2025-12-17:1.3
Latest on Hackage:1.3

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Sylvain Henry
Maintained by [email protected]
This version can be pinned in stack with:ghc-bignum-1.3@sha256:bd2040ad43b139bd966bf764e240a4b3f435b79dfc11d0342decd61932818142,2789

Module documentation for 1.3

  • GHC
    • GHC.Num
      • GHC.Num.Backend
        • GHC.Num.Backend.Native
        • GHC.Num.Backend.Selected
      • GHC.Num.BigNat
      • GHC.Num.Integer
      • GHC.Num.Natural
      • GHC.Num.Primitives
      • GHC.Num.WordArray
Depends on 1 package(full list with versions):
ghc-prim

This package provides the low-level implementation of the standard BigNat, Natural and Integer types.

Changes

Changelog for ghc-bignum package

1.3

  • Expose backendName
  • Add naturalSetBit[#] (#21173), naturalClearBit[#] (#21175), naturalComplementBit[#] (#21181)

1.2

  • Moved naturalToDouble# and naturalToFloat# to base package

1.1

  • Moved integerToDouble# and integerToFloat# to base package with fixed rounding (#15926, #17231, #17782)
  • Added Eq and Ord instances for BigNat (#19647)
  • Bump in-tree GMP to version 6.2.1
  • Support for autoconf >= 2.70 especially on Windows (#19189)
  • Fixed extra-source-files in .cabal file
  • Fixed incorrect declaration in .hs-boot file (#19638)