Re: widening ticks

On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 01:12:24PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> Why not have jiffiesjust be an alias for tickl at the assembler level, then
> just have extern unsigned long jiffies; so the types match and we don't
> have fragile macros? At the assembler level, long and unsigned long are the
> sane for object definition.

We certainly could.  I guess Linux code which does something like

    print("%lu\n", jiffies);

will be incomatible otherwise.  Aside from that, I'm not sure if any
code would be affected by the difference in practice, but it's easy to
add an alias.