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[–] lol@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Steadily increasing unsigned integer on a long-running piece of infrastructure: bonjour

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Laughs in

struct LooooongCounter {
    long highPart;
    long lowPart;
};
LooooongCounter operator++(const LooooongCounter& c) {
    if(c.lowPart == ULONG_MAX) {
        c.highPart++;
        c.lowPart = 0;
    }
    else c.lowPart++;
}