Re: Long long arithmetic
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
8 Jun 2000 16:28:12 -0700
Followup to: <39400F10.36D1DDBF@quark.vpplus.com>
By author: Brian Gerst <bgerst@quark.vpplus.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> GCC needs library functions for some 64-bit operations on 32-bit
> crchitectures, which are not present in the kernel. 64-bit division is
> a common example of this. If possible, limit your code to using adds
> and shifts when working with long longs.
>
Is there any reason we don't link the kernel with libgcc? libgcc
doesn't do system calls, so it should be safe to link the kernel with.
-hpa
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