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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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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