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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:37:24 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Nov 29 2007 19:54, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>>> Anyway, I don't think compiling bc is hard on anything which has a C
>>>> compiler.
>>> alternative is to just also ship the precomputed values ;-)
>>>
>> Oh, come on... it's not like bc is some obscure thing.  It's a POSIX utility.
> 
> People try building linux on not-so-posix systems these days...
> 

Are you talking about Cygwin (which has bc prepackaged)?  Even if not, I 
would be *extremely* surprised to find something that can build the 
Linux kernel which can't build GNU bc out of the box.

In fact, I would be rather surprised to find that the Linux kernel 
builds on anything which doesn't come prepackaged with bc.

	-hpa
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