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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Nov 29 2007 - 22:02:21 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:

NOTE: This patch uses a bc(1) script to compute the appropriate
constants.

Does this add the first dependency upon the availability of bc?

I believe it does. I used bc because doing it C would have required arbitrary-precision code or have added a dependency on libgmp.

-hpa
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