lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2003]   [Jul]   [2]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Kill div64.h dupes, parenthesize do_div() macro params
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 08:53:02 +0100
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 05:15:17AM +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > What's worse, it has different semantics on different architectures:
>
> Any arch which does 32/32 -> 32q + 32r will break in the new time
> code; it certainly did for ARM. do_div must now be a 64/32 -> 64q +
> 32r implementation.
>
> > arm 64/32 -> 64q + 32r (asm function call)
> > arm26 32/32 -> 32q + 32r (generic)
>
> arm26 needs fixing in the same way arm recently was.

Thanks for the heads-up. Im not familiar with the time stuff yet, could
someone send me the full text of the partially snipped post above so I
have some background?


--
Spyros lair: http://www.mnementh.co.uk/ |||| Maintainer: arm26 linux
Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are tasty and good with
ketchup.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:46    [from the cache]
©2003-2011 Jasper Spaans