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Subject: Re: [9front] Re: boot/efi: support framebuffer with 64-bit base address
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On 2021-02-18, Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org> wrote:
> I'd change numfmt to take a uvlong instead
> of adding another special case to hexfmt.

I had tried this, but it doesn't work because numfmt takes the
remainder mod the base then divides by the base (until it prints all
the digits). This same code is used to build bootia32.efi which needs
special runtime functions (_modvu and _divvu) to implement these
operations on a uvlong.