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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: clock drift in -CURRENT 
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On Wed, 1 May 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> When was your source tree from on that kernel ?
>
> I'm not too confident in your diagnosis, mostly because we don't
> have a counter like you describe :-)

From kern_clock.c:

%%%
int	ticks;
%%%

but this is treated as an cyclic counter so its overflow shouldn't matter
on machines where overflow doesn't trap.

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Bruce


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