Re: ADFS -> undefined reference to __cmpdi2 (2.3.51)

From: David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 11:37:54 EST


On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 03:49:06PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > Matti Aarnio writes:
> > > NO architecture should put libgcc.a into the kernel link.
> > > Which does ?
> >
> > ARM does, and I am not going to remove it at this point in time. It has
> > worked for us ever since the conception of ARM Linux 6 years ago.
> >
> > What is your problem with libgcc.a?
>
> As Linus hasn't put it into i386 (nor Alpha), he has
> some good reason. Ask him for guidance.
>
> Mainly I think we should NEVER use slow 64/* division routines
> in fast paths.
>
> Case of ADFS (and Apple HFS, and quite a many others) is that
> they don't support file sizes exceeding 32 bits, do they ?

HFS doesn't, HFS+ does.

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