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Subject: Re: 64 bit netdev stats counter
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   From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
   Date: 13 Jul 2002 00:20:53 +0100

   gcc will output
   
   		increment low 32bit
   		if zero
   			increment high
   
   Which means we can rapidly get 2^32 out of sync
   
True and this equals the "fix" suggested C code involving
two 32-bit counters that the original author posted :-)

So this makes both cases equally wrong.
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