On Jan 25, 2002 06:31 -0000, simon@baydel.com wrote:
> I am writing a module and would like to perform arithmetic on long
> long variables. When I try to do this the module does not load due
> to the unresolved symbols __udivdi3 and __umoddi3. I notice these
> are normally defined in libc. Is there any way I can do this in a
> kernel module.
Normally you do not need to do 64-bit arithmetic in the kernel. You
normally use power-of-2 values, and then shift/mask to get the results
you want.
What is it exactly that you need to do?
Cheers, Andreas
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