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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c
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.

-hpa
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