On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 18:43:44 +0200
Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Commit 1f9296b avoids "other kinds of overflow" by limiting the
> polling interval to UINT_MAX. The computations to protect are done in
> 64 bits. This is indeed safe when unsigned is 32 bits, as it commonly
> is. It isn't when unsi
On 10/01/2014 10:43 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Commit 1f9296b avoids "other kinds of overflow" by limiting the
> polling interval to UINT_MAX. The computations to protect are done in
> 64 bits. This is indeed safe when unsigned is 32 bits, as it commonly
> is. It isn't when unsigned is 64 bi
Commit 1f9296b avoids "other kinds of overflow" by limiting the
polling interval to UINT_MAX. The computations to protect are done in
64 bits. This is indeed safe when unsigned is 32 bits, as it commonly
is. It isn't when unsigned is 64 bits. Purely theoretical; I'm not
aware of such a system.
