Re: [PATCH] Kill div64.h dupes, parenthesize do_div() macro params

[Ian Molton]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 08:53:02 +0100
Russell King <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 05:15:17AM +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > What's worse, it has different semantics on different architectures:
> 
> Any arch which does 32/32 -> 32q + 32r will break in the new time
> code; it certainly did for ARM.  do_div must now be a 64/32 -> 64q +
> 32r implementation.
> 
> >  arm       64/32 -> 64q + 32r (asm function call)
> >  arm26     32/32 -> 32q + 32r (generic)
> 
> arm26 needs fixing in the same way arm recently was.

Thanks for the heads-up. Im not familiar with the time stuff yet, could
someone send me the full text of the partially snipped post above so I
have some background?

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