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Hi Ilpo,

On 10/24/2023 2:26 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> Perf counters are __u64 but the code converts them to unsigned long
> before printing them out.
> 
> Remove unnecessary type conversion and the potential loss of meaningful
> bits due to different sizes of types.

This motivation is not clear to me. Is this work done in
preparation for 32 bit testing? This raises a lot more topics if
this is the case.

Reinette