Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:01:25 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c |
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Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> NOTE: This patch uses a bc(1) script to compute the appropriate >> constants. > > Does this add the first dependency upon the availability of bc?
I believe it does. I used bc because doing it C would have required arbitrary-precision code or have added a dependency on libgmp.
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