((unsigned long )&jiffies)++;

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.COM)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2000 - 09:21:22 EST

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Hi,

Why does do_timer() do:

(*(unsigned long *)&jiffies)++;

why not just jiffies++; ? It works fine with jiffies++ but I assume there
is a reason...

Thanks,
Tigran.

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