-These procedures are used to create, modify, and read
-integer and wide integer Tcl objects from C code.
-\fBTcl_NewIntObj\fR, \fBTcl_NewLongObj\fR,
-\fBTcl_SetIntObj\fR, and \fBTcl_SetLongObj\fR
-create a new object of integer type
-or modify an existing object to have integer type,
-.VS 8.4
-and \fBTcl_NewWideIntObj\fR and \fBTcl_SetWideIntObj\fR create a new
-object of wide integer type or modify an existing object to have wide
-integer type.
-.VE 8.4
-\fBTcl_NewIntObj\fR and \fBTcl_SetIntObj\fR set the object to have the
-integer value given by \fIintValue\fR,
-\fBTcl_NewLongObj\fR and \fBTcl_SetLongObj\fR
-set the object to have the
-long integer value given by \fIlongValue\fR,
-.VS 8.4
-and \fBTcl_NewWideIntObj\fR and \fBTcl_SetWideIntObj\fR set the object
-to have the wide integer value given by \fIwideValue\fR.
-\fBTcl_NewIntObj\fR, \fBTcl_NewLongObj\fR and \fBTcl_NewWideIntObj\fR
-return a pointer to a newly created object with reference count zero.
-These procedures set the object's type to be integer
-and assign the integer value to the object's internal representation
-\fIlongValue\fR or \fIwideValue\fR member (as appropriate).
-\fBTcl_SetIntObj\fR, \fBTcl_SetLongObj\fR
-and \fBTcl_SetWideIntObj\fR
-.VE 8.4
-invalidate any old string representation and,
-if the object is not already an integer object,
-free any old internal representation.
+These procedures are used to create, modify, and read Tcl values
+that hold integral values.
+.PP
+The different routines exist to accommodate different integral types in C
+with which values might be exchanged. The C integral types for which Tcl
+provides value exchange routines are \fBint\fR, \fBlong int\fR,
+\fBTcl_WideInt\fR, and \fBmp_int\fR. The \fBint\fR and \fBlong int\fR types
+are provided by the C language standard. The \fBTcl_WideInt\fR type is a
+typedef defined to be whatever signed integral type covers at least the
+64-bit integer range (-9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807). Depending
+on the platform and the C compiler, the actual type might be
+\fBlong int\fR, \fBlong long int\fR, \fBint64\fR, or something else.
+The \fBmp_int\fR type is a multiple-precision integer type defined
+by the LibTomMath multiple-precision integer library.
+.PP
+The \fBTcl_NewIntObj\fR, \fBTcl_NewLongObj\fR, \fBTcl_NewWideIntObj\fR,
+and \fBTcl_NewBignumObj\fR routines each create and return a new
+Tcl value initialized to the integral value of the argument. The
+returned Tcl value is unshared.
+.PP
+The \fBTcl_SetIntObj\fR, \fBTcl_SetLongObj\fR, \fBTcl_SetWideIntObj\fR,
+and \fBTcl_SetBignumObj\fR routines each set the value of an existing
+Tcl value pointed to by \fIobjPtr\fR to the integral value provided
+by the other argument. The \fIobjPtr\fR argument must point to an
+unshared Tcl value. Any attempt to set the value of a shared Tcl value
+violates Tcl's copy-on-write policy. Any existing string representation
+or internal representation in the unshared Tcl value will be freed
+as a consequence of setting the new value.
+.PP
+The \fBTcl_GetIntFromObj\fR, \fBTcl_GetLongFromObj\fR,
+\fBTcl_GetWideIntFromObj\fR, \fBTcl_GetBignumFromObj\fR, and
+\fBTcl_TakeBignumFromObj\fR routines attempt to retrieve an integral
+value of the appropriate type from the Tcl value \fIobjPtr\fR. If the
+attempt succeeds, then \fBTCL_OK\fR is returned, and the value is
+written to the storage provided by the caller. The attempt might
+fail if \fIobjPtr\fR does not hold an integral value, or if the
+value exceeds the range of the target type. If the attempt fails,
+then \fBTCL_ERROR\fR is returned, and if \fIinterp\fR is non-NULL,
+an error message is left in \fIinterp\fR. The \fBTcl_ObjType\fR
+of \fIobjPtr\fR may be changed to make subsequent calls to the
+same routine more efficient. Unlike the other functions,
+\fBTcl_TakeBignumFromObj\fR may set the content of the Tcl value
+\fIobjPtr\fR to an empty string in the process of retrieving the
+multiple-precision integer value.
+.PP
+The choice between \fBTcl_GetBignumFromObj\fR and
+\fBTcl_TakeBignumFromObj\fR is governed by how the caller will
+continue to use \fIobjPtr\fR. If after the \fBmp_int\fR value
+is retrieved from \fIobjPtr\fR, the caller will make no more
+use of \fIobjPtr\fR, then using \fBTcl_TakeBignumFromObj\fR
+permits Tcl to detect when an unshared \fIobjPtr\fR permits the
+value to be moved instead of copied, which should be more efficient.
+If anything later in the caller requires
+\fIobjPtr\fR to continue to hold the same value, then
+\fBTcl_GetBignumFromObj\fR must be chosen.