[metapost] Arithmetic and metapost

[Paul Pichaureau]

  In the archive of this mailing list, I have found the following
reference, from Taco Hoekwater :

> We also want to (eventually) create a program with extensions
> that are allowed to break compatibility. For the moment, this
> is codenamed "megapost" because the first thing we want to do
> is 64bit arithmetic (a partial patch by Giuseppe Bilotta exists).

Can someone give me more information about this patch. Is it avalaible
somewhere ? What does it do exactly ?

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 Paul Pichaureau