[En-Nut-Discussion] Time handling functions

[Harald Kipp]

Hi Uwe,

On 14.05.2013 23:47, Uwe Bonnes wrote:

> What about about a 64-bit millisecond counter? 
> 
>     Ole> contra:
> 
> Hard to handle atomic access. Atomic access to 64-bit is easier.

You may hardly believe this, but IMHO the majority of Nut/OS
applications are running on 8-bit targets, where even 16 bit accesses
are not atomic.

Beside that, 64 bit values should be limited to environments, which are
well known to support this. The Nut/OS kernel should not depend on more
than basic C89.

Regards,

Harald