Re: 2.3.26pre2 compile error

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Fri, 5 Nov 1999 05:50:00 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Peter Samuelson wrote:

> [Keith Owens]
> > Did you really mean to link libgcc.a into the kernel? That cannot be
> > right, the kernel does not use external libraries.
>
> I don't think it's right either, but ... where would *you* suggest
> finding a __divdi3 function? In a sense libgcc is not really an
> external library, since it is part of gcc itself. I guess the
> alternative for the kernel is just not to use any functionality that
> gcc needs libgcc math functions for.

Exactly. The question being: can the bloody FAT have cluster size other
than power of 2? Division should become shifts here. I suspect that we
are always guaranteed that cluster = 2^k * sector, but... it's MS, after
all.

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