Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:40:27 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c |
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:04:36 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Chris Snook wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> NOTE: This patch uses a bc(1) script to compute the appropriate > >> constants. > > > > Perhaps dc would be more appropriate? That's included in busybox. > > > > Perhaps it would, but I think there is more variability between dc > implementations -- consider if the busybox version is broken, for > eample. > > Either way, how many people compile their kernels in a busybox > environment? > > Anyway, I don't think compiling bc is hard on anything which has a C > compiler.
alternative is to just also ship the precomputed values ;-)
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