> Peter> I don't think it's right either, but ... where would *you*
> Peter> suggest finding a __divdi3 function? In a sense libgcc is not
> Peter> really an external library, since it is part of gcc itself. I
> Peter> guess the alternative for the kernel is just not to use any
> Peter> functionality that gcc needs libgcc math functions for.
> Then you extract that single function from libgcc and put it in the
> kernel instead of linking in the entire libgcc.a
That is ld(1)'s job.
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