> Actually, my version of gcc (egcs-2.91.54), does:
>
> movl i,%eax
> addl %eax,l
> adcl $0,l+4
>
> with extern unsigned int i and extern long long l, and
>
> addl %eax,l
> adcl $0,l+4
>
> with "unsigned long i" declared locally ;)
Very cool. Perhaps we need a patch to make jiffies and other counters a
bigcounter_t which can conditionally be defined to be long long when using
EGCS.
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