Int feature tracking ticket

[erik-3milabs]

Related

• Feature wishlist tracking ticket #1 (feature request), and
• Supporting Signed Integer Arithmetic #624 (initial discussion).
• [WIP] Int - sign-and-magnitude #694 (abandoned attempt involving sign-magnitude representation),

Features

• add, sub, mul, div Int - two's complement #695
• and, or, xor, not, shl, shr Int - Bit ops #697
• gcd Int - gcd #698
• mul_uint, div_uint Int - cross compatibility with Uint #699
• Encoding support (from_be_slice, from_le_slice)
• xgcd
• prop-tests (see also Int - two's complement #695 (comment))

[ycscaly]

@tarcieri with #695 merged to signed-int, whats the plan for this feature? Specifically, will it be included in the next release? Could be helpful esp. because of comparability other crates like elliptic-curves depending on crypto-bigint

[tarcieri]

@ycscaly yeah, we should be able to get at least a preliminary implementation into the release and then we can additively improve it.

I went ahead and added it to the list in #681

[ycscaly]

@ycscaly yeah, we should be able to get at least a preliminary implementation into the release and then we can additively improve it.

I went ahead and added it to the list in #681

Great thanks!