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Re:Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner by CamperBob2 on Saturday May 02, 2015 @04:04PM (#9478365)
Another good practice is to initialize the time counters to something close to the overflow point, rather than zero. This encourages overflow bugs to show up at timescales where they will be noticed during testing, rather than after 248 days of service.

This is a scary-ass bug in a codebase that was supposed to be authored to strict professional standards.

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Re:Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner by cpeterso on Sunday May 03, 2015 @12:20AM (#9479901)
The Linux kernel does that. The 'jiffies' counter's initial value rolls over 5 minutes after boot:

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/linux/jiffies.h...

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