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64-bit/32-bit compatibility

64-bit/32-bit compatibility

Posted Jan 31, 2006 21:37 UTC (Tue) by efexis (guest, #26355)
In reply to: 64-bit/32-bit compatibility by mingo
Parent article: The high-resolution timer API

heh, you could even use MMX or other SIMD to work on both halfs with one instruction ;-)


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64-bit/32-bit compatibility

Posted Mar 20, 2006 16:01 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

And floating point is unfortunately a no-go in kernelspace.

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