(*(unsigned long *)&jiffies)++;

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.COM)
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:21:22 +0000 (GMT)


Hi,

Why does do_timer() do:

(*(unsigned long *)&jiffies)++;

why not just jiffies++; ? It works fine with jiffies++ but I assume there
is a reason...

Thanks,
Tigran.

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