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20 years ago

altera timer hal overflow question ?

do altera hal timers work correct if the end of the system tick variable range is reached ? Please check the following and tell me if I'm wrong. see files alt_tick.c, alt_alarm_st...
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20 years ago

The system and time functions from newlibc don’t work as expected. Due to the limited range of _alt_nticks (32bit) the function clock() returns zero after 49 days.

Why is _alt_nticks not implemented as 64bit integer?

Does nios support 64bit integer (long long)?

Thanks for all information...