Hello.

Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

Why is cycles_t 32-bits on some of the arches to begin with?

    I guess this was done for speed reasons.

The whole 64-bit timebase can't be rad atomically on PPC32. ARM probably has stricter limitations...

        Ingo

WBR, Sergei
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