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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET][2.6-test4][0/6]Support for HPET based timer - Take 2
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:05:25 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308311404430.1581-100000@home.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030829210335.GA3150@codepoet.org>


On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
> gcc then generates code calling __udivdi3 and __umoddi3.  Since
> the kernel does not provide these, people keep reinventing them.
> Perhaps it is time to kill off do_div and all its little friends
> and simply copy __udivdi3 and __umoddi3 from libgcc.....

No. do_div() does _nothing_ like __udivdi3/__umoddi3.

Read the documentation.


		Linus


  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-31 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-28 23:41 [PATCHSET][2.6-test4][0/6]Support for HPET based timer - Take 2 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-08-29 18:23 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-29 21:03   ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-31 21:05     ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2003-08-31 22:24       ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-31 22:48         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-05 22:19     ` George Anzinger
     [not found] <pEGJ.73p.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-29  3:40 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2003-08-29 16:12 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-08-30  4:59 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2003-08-29 23:58 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-09-05 22:26 ` George Anzinger
2003-08-30 16:26 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-09-06 19:04 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-09-07 17:57 ` George Anzinger

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