Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: signed int for interrupts?? | Date | 10 Sep 1996 08:05:55 GMT |
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Followup to: <9609091629.AA21503@gnu.mc.xerox.com> By author: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Now I'm confused...2**31 is a huge number. > > If you have interrupts at 1 Megahertz, (10**6), you still have a big > enough number for 10*25 seconds of interrupts. >
Ahem... 2**31 ~ 2 * 10**9. You are confusing powers of 2 with powers of 10! At 1 MHz you will reach 2**31 in less than an hour!
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