On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> [Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com>]
> > Well some of the stuff is one-time execution such as signon-messages.
> > Somebody, knowing that floating-point is not allowed, may try to come
> > up with a readable fixed-point fraction for display. The nature of
> > the fraction precludes shifts since the idea is to get a decimal
> > value to put after a '.'.
>
> Ah. So you propose borrowing the libgcc function in question and
> renaming it to something like _longlongdiv(). That way you can't
> accidentally invoke it using the regular C division operator. I can
> see the point of doing this, for times (like printk stuff during init)
> when you really *do* want it.
>
> Peter
>
Yep.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).
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