On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Martin Husemann wrote: > I have one stupid question: why can't we leave the size of the counters > at 32bit on a per arch basis?
Or use 64-bit counters but just update the lower 32-bits of them. Is there some danger that a 32-bit counter will overflow? > At a quick glance the sparc code looked v9 only, so will need some work. Although there are problems with the SPARC code, it is v8 code. Eduardo