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>> <brokenrecord>
>> Why don't we just link with libgcc?
>> </brokenrecord>
>
> Its something of a PITA to do that in the kernel at this point since 
> we've duplicated libgcc functionality in it.  I'm sure there are some 
> historical reasons this wasn't done to start with.

That's the same as saying that it would be a nice cleanup to remove all
that duplicated code now...


Segher