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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: "dave" <davekern@ihug.co.nz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: error using unsigned long long not working in 2.4.x
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:06:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030317110658.5aff6ebc.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002d01c2ed11$6ba7a110$0b721cac@stacy>

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 21:44:16 -0800 "dave" <davekern@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

| hi i am writing a kernel 2.4.x driver and need to do maths on 64 bit ints
| (unsigned long long)
| bcause you can not use the FPU
| but when i insmod i get the error unresolved symbol __udivdi3 i need!! 64
| bit ints

Other alternatives are search the lkml archive for a patch from
George Anzinger on 2003-mar-05,
subject: [PATCH] Functions to do easy scaled math.

or if all you need is 64-bit mul and div, and only during setup
(when speed isn't a huge factor), you could use the divrem64()
function in this sample /procfs module:
  http://www.xenotime.net/linux/procfs_ex/procdiv64.c

--
~Randy

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-17 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-18  5:44 dave
2003-03-17  8:54 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-03-17 19:06 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]

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