Re: Long long arithmetic

From: almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 05:55:03 EST

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Alan Cox wrote:
> But things like the x86 its good to have to think
> about stuff like long long because it reminds you that you are writing
> expensive to execute code and should maybe take some time to work out
> a better solution

Like coding the mess in assembler (see "divl" in drivers/atm/zatm.c)
or maybe write a "portable" but very very slow version in C :-(

- Werner

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