Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:33:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:32:50 -0400 Received: from mail.zmailer.org ([194.252.70.162]:34820 "EHLO zmailer.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:32:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:31:45 +0300 From: Matti Aarnio To: David Woodhouse Cc: Matti Aarnio , Bart Trojanowski , Manoj Sontakke , LKML Subject: Re: which gcc version? Message-ID: <20010405153145.C873@mea-ext.zmailer.org> In-Reply-To: <20010405150219.B873@mea-ext.zmailer.org>

<20010405150219.B873@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <25567.986473592@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <25567.986473592@redhat.com>; from dwmw2@infradead.org on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:26:32PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:26:32PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > matti.aarnio@zmailer.org 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.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/