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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Nov 29 2007 19:54, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>>> Anyway, I don't think compiling bc is hard on anything which has a C
>>>> compiler.
>>> alternative is to just also ship the precomputed values ;-)
>>>
>> Oh, come on... it's not like bc is some obscure thing. It's a POSIX utility.
>
> People try building linux on not-so-posix systems these days...
>

Are you talking about Cygwin (which has bc prepackaged)? Even if not, I
would be *extremely* surprised to find something that can build the
Linux kernel which can't build GNU bc out of the box.

In fact, I would be rather surprised to find that the Linux kernel
builds on anything which doesn't come prepackaged with bc.

-hpa


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