On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 06:05:44PM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> In such environments, VFS i_size (and loff_t *ppos) are
> extra large for what is needed, and before doing block size
> divisions, you can safely cast the value to (long).
>
> As an end-result you will get your system free of need for
> libgcc.a, and possible dangers lurking in it.
On MIPS the libgcc variants installed with a standard gcc / egcs cannot
even possibly be linked with the kernel. They're for userland which is
all pic code but the kernel isn't.
Ralf
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