Re: which gcc version?

[Matti Aarnio]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:26:32PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> [e-mail] said:
> > 	To think of it, there really should be explicitely callable
> > 	versions of these with LinuxKernel names for them, not gcc
> > 	builtins.   That way people would *know* they are doing
> > 	something, which is potentially very slow.
> > 	(And the API would not change from underneath them.) 
> 
> Like include/asm-*/div64.h::do_div()?

	Like that (*) - but that has limited value spaces,
	the divider can be at most 32 bits, probably far less.

> --
> dwmw2

/Matti Aarnio

(*) Trying to recall when I, and few others, created that beast.
    The divisor code in itself isn't mine, but the idea of supporting
    %Ld at printk() most definitely is..