Re: [avr-libc-dev] soliciting feedback/thoughts on potential value of a few gcc 4.0 tweaks.

[Paul Schlie]

Yup, seems like a simple enough practical reason to desire it's support.

> From: Bob Paddock <address@hidden>
> Organization: The Designer-III Company http://www.designer-iii.com/
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:16:48 -0500
> To: <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [avr-libc-dev] soliciting feedback/thoughts on potential value of
> a few gcc 4.0 tweaks.
> 
>> - although I personally don't see much value of 64-bit long longs on avr,
> 
> I have wanted to use 64-bit longs for time stamping.
> 
> TAI64, covering a few hundred billion years with 1-second precision; (2)
> TAI64NA, covering the same period with 1-attosecond precision. Both scales
> are defined in terms of TAI, the current international real time standard.
> 
> http://cr.yp.to/time.html