Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:04:36 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c |
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Chris Snook wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> NOTE: This patch uses a bc(1) script to compute the appropriate >> constants. > > Perhaps dc would be more appropriate? That's included in busybox. >
Perhaps it would, but I think there is more variability between dc implementations -- consider if the busybox version is broken, for eample.
Either way, how many people compile their kernels in a busybox environment?
Anyway, I don't think compiling bc is hard on anything which has a C compiler.
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