[Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com>]
> Well some of the stuff is one-time execution such as signon-messages.
> Somebody, knowing that floating-point is not allowed, may try to come
> up with a readable fixed-point fraction for display. The nature of
> the fraction precludes shifts since the idea is to get a decimal
> value to put after a '.'.
Ah. So you propose borrowing the libgcc function in question and
renaming it to something like _longlongdiv(). That way you can't
accidentally invoke it using the regular C division operator. I can
see the point of doing this, for times (like printk stuff during init)
when you really *do* want it.
Peter
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