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

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Date:	Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:58:41 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Arch Mailing List <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH REVISED] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> I understood that bc is unreliable.
> How about creating a small .c program that does to necessary computation
> and integrate it in the build process.
> It should be much cleaner than this approach.
> 

You'd have to include an extended-precision library in said C program.

	-hpa
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