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Message-ID: <474F7D05.9020109@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:01:25 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [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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