linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c

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Message-ID: <20071202183724.GD4721@ucw.cz>
Date:	Sun, 2 Dec 2007 18:37:25 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c

On Thu 2007-11-29 19:54:44, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >>
> >>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 
> >;-)
> >
> 
> Oh, come on... it's not like bc is some obscure thing.  
> It's a POSIX utility.

I think shiping precomputed values makes sense here. They are not
going to change often, right?
						Pavel
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