Re: Unresolved symbol __divdi3 in module

[arjan@fenrus.demon.nl]

In article <17403682811104@MAIL.leftcoast.net> you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When inserting my module,insmod says:
> 
> "Unresolved symbol __divdi3"
> 
> __divdi3 is defined on archs like sparc,ia64 etc but not on 
> i386. I understand that its some sort of gcc bug for long
> divisions, where gcc calls __divdi3 lib function. So one 
> solution would be to replace all long divisions with right
> shifts, but this is not practical in my module since there
> are many such divisions.
> 
> Is there any workaround or solution to this problem ?

write proper code ?
Feel free to post the url to the code so we can see what you're really
doing, maybe there are simple alternatives.

You can also just link the __divdi3 from gcc into your
module.... (no problem since the kernel and your module are GPL just
as the gcc code)
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