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

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Message-ID: <475D6B44.8050707@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:37:24 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
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

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Nov 29 2007 19:54, 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.
> 
> People try building linux on not-so-posix systems these days...
> 

Are you talking about Cygwin (which has bc prepackaged)?  Even if not, I 
would be *extremely* surprised to find something that can build the 
Linux kernel which can't build GNU bc out of the box.

In fact, I would be rather surprised to find that the Linux kernel 
builds on anything which doesn't come prepackaged with bc.

	-hpa
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