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

[H. Peter Anvin]

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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