Rob Landley wrote:
>
> C) The only calculation which can overflow 64 bits (the ADJ32 one) turns out
> not to need arbitrary precision math, just 72 bits, and if it ever uses more
> than 32 then bottom 32 are all zero before the divide so you can do it in
> three lines.
>
... for the current code (32 bits). When we get an overflow-less 64-bit
implementation, this code will have to be redone, which is not true for
a properly done implementation.
-hpa
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