Re: Why do we still have 32 bit counters? Interrupt counters overflow within 50 days

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2014, Paul Bolle wrote:

> dc -e "1 k 2 32 ^ 1000 / 86400 / p"
> 49.7
>
> (That was the number I remembered from stories about a ancient Windows
> lockup.)

Well yes, I used bc which discards the remainder on integer divides

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