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Re:A Special Kind of Hell: intmax_t in C and C++ by CamperBob2 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:51PM (#25320860)
Tick counts. It's nice to be able to do time-difference subtractions (and comparisons!) without worrying about rollover.

Heck, I use 64-bit ints on 8051 cores that make an AVR look like something out of Star Trek.

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