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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 08:59:24 -0600
From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 01:02:58PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Because we're hairy chested kernel programmers we don't actually build a
> C library at all. So we don't get that hint that we're using an odd
> combination, we just configure the toolchain, build it and off we go.

Right, I keep forgetting that kernel developers never read any
documentation either :-P


Segher